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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 ...
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 ...
Page xxiii
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 ...
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
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 have received at Padua , he could procure no patients .
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 have received at Padua , he could procure no patients .
Page xxxii
... 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 OF GOLDSMITH .
... 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 OF GOLDSMITH .
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 ...
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 ...
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| Pealkiri | Poetical Works |
| Autor | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 1862 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 mär. 2009 |
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