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Page v
Oliver Goldsmith. CONTENTS . Page MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH . By T . B .
Macaulay . . . . . . . . . is Anecdotes of Goldsmith . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxv . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEMS . The Traveller ; or , A Prospect of Society . . . . . . ✓ The Deserted Village
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Oliver Goldsmith. CONTENTS . Page MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH . By T . B .
Macaulay . . . . . . . . . is Anecdotes of Goldsmith . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxv . . . . . . . . . . . . .
POEMS . The Traveller ; or , A Prospect of Society . . . . . . ✓ The Deserted Village
.
Page x
The family accordingly quitted their cottage in the wilderness for a spacious
house on a frequented road , near the village of Lissoy . Here the boy was taught
his letters by a maid - servant , and was sent in his seventh year to a village
school ...
The family accordingly quitted their cottage in the wilderness for a spacious
house on a frequented road , near the village of Lissoy . Here the boy was taught
his letters by a maid - servant , and was sent in his seventh year to a village
school ...
Page xii
... recited repartees and couplets which had dropped from him , and which ,
though little noticed at the time , were supposed , a quarter of a century later , to
indicate the powers which produced the Vicar of Wakefield and the Deserted
Village .
... recited repartees and couplets which had dropped from him , and which ,
though little noticed at the time , were supposed , a quarter of a century later , to
indicate the powers which produced the Vicar of Wakefield and the Deserted
Village .
Page xxii
In 1770 appeared the Deserted Village . In mere diction and versification , this
celebrated poem is fully equal , perhaps superior to the Traveller ; and it is
generally preferred to the Traveller by that large class of readers who think , with
Bayes ...
In 1770 appeared the Deserted Village . In mere diction and versification , this
celebrated poem is fully equal , perhaps superior to the Traveller ; and it is
generally preferred to the Traveller by that large class of readers who think , with
Bayes ...
Page xxiii
To such a picture the Deserted Village bears a great resemblance . It is made up
of incongruous parts . The village in its happy days , is a true English village . The
village in its decay , is an Irish village . The felicity and the misery which ...
To such a picture the Deserted Village bears a great resemblance . It is made up
of incongruous parts . The village in its happy days , is a true English village . The
village in its decay , is an Irish village . The felicity and the misery which ...
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| Title | Poetical Works |
| Author | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 1862 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 mär. 2009 |
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