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Page xi
He went to several grammar - schools , and acquired some knowledge of the
ancient languages . His life at this time seems to have been far from happy . He
had , as appears from the admirable portrait of him at Knowle , features harsh
even to ...
He went to several grammar - schools , and acquired some knowledge of the
ancient languages . His life at this time seems to have been far from happy . He
had , as appears from the admirable portrait of him at Knowle , features harsh
even to ...
Page xxiii
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 Goldsmith has brought close together , belong to two different
countries ...
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 Goldsmith has brought close together , belong to two different
countries ...
Page xxxi
He was attacked by a nervous fever , which he thought himself competent to treat
. It would have been happy for him if his medical skill had been appreciated as
justly by himself as by others . Notwithstanding the degree which he pretended to
...
He was attacked by a nervous fever , which he thought himself competent to treat
. It would have been happy for him if his medical skill had been appreciated as
justly by himself as by others . Notwithstanding the degree which he pretended to
...
Page xxxii
... were supplied by sketches of Johnson and Gibbon , as happy and vivid as the
sketches of Burke and Garrick . Some of Goldsmith ' s friends and admirers
honoured him with a cenotaph in Westminster Abbey . Nollekens was xxxii
MEMOIR ...
... were supplied by sketches of Johnson and Gibbon , as happy and vivid as the
sketches of Burke and Garrick . Some of Goldsmith ' s friends and admirers
honoured him with a cenotaph in Westminster Abbey . Nollekens was xxxii
MEMOIR ...
Page lxv
The Good - natured Man bears strong marks of that happy originality which
distinguishes the writings of Dr . Goldsmith . Two characters in this comedy were
absolutely unknown before to the English stage ; a man who boasts an intimacy
with ...
The Good - natured Man bears strong marks of that happy originality which
distinguishes the writings of Dr . Goldsmith . Two characters in this comedy were
absolutely unknown before to the English stage ; a man who boasts an intimacy
with ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Poetical Works |
| Author | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 1862 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 mär. 2009 |
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