Poetical WorksLittle, Brown, 1862 |
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Page x
... sent in his seventh year to a village school kept by an old quartermaster on half - pay , who professed to teach nothing but reading , writing , and arithmetic , but who had an inexhaustible fund of stories about ghosts , banshees , and ...
... sent in his seventh year to a village school kept by an old quartermaster on half - pay , who professed to teach nothing but reading , writing , and arithmetic , but who had an inexhaustible fund of stories about ghosts , banshees , and ...
Page xiv
... sent to Edinburgh . At Edinburgh , he passed eighteen months in nominal attendance on lectures , and picked up some superficial information about chemistry and natural history . Thence he went to Leyden , still pretending to study ...
... sent to Edinburgh . At Edinburgh , he passed eighteen months in nominal attendance on lectures , and picked up some superficial information about chemistry and natural history . Thence he went to Leyden , still pretending to study ...
Page xvi
... sent to the press some things which have survived , and many which have perished . He produced articles for reviews , magazines , and newspapers ; children's books , which , bound in gilt paper and adorned with hideous woodcuts ...
... sent to the press some things which have survived , and many which have perished . He produced articles for reviews , magazines , and newspapers ; children's books , which , bound in gilt paper and adorned with hideous woodcuts ...
Page xix
... sent back the messenger with a guinea , and promised to follow speedily . He came , and found that Goldsmith had changed the guinea , and was railing at the landlady over a bottle of Madeira . Johnson put the cork into the bottle , and ...
... sent back the messenger with a guinea , and promised to follow speedily . He came , and found that Goldsmith had changed the guinea , and was railing at the landlady over a bottle of Madeira . Johnson put the cork into the bottle , and ...
Page xxix
... sent to the newspapers anonymous libels upon him . Both what was good and what was bad in Goldsmith's character , was to his associates a perfect security that he would never commit such villany . He was neither ill- natured enough ...
... sent to the newspapers anonymous libels upon him . Both what was good and what was bad in Goldsmith's character , was to his associates a perfect security that he would never commit such villany . He was neither ill- natured enough ...
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