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Page xlvi
Oliver Goldsmith. manner for some time ; when , at length , his patience being exhausted , he rose with great dignity , looked them full in the face , and exclaimed , " If nobody was suffered to abuse poor Goldy but those who could write ...
Oliver Goldsmith. manner for some time ; when , at length , his patience being exhausted , he rose with great dignity , looked them full in the face , and exclaimed , " If nobody was suffered to abuse poor Goldy but those who could write ...
Page xlvii
... manners , and he then has soon become the plaything and favourite of the company . Mr. Boswell in this year records an opinion of Sir Joshua's on the subject of conversation , which may be noticed in this place . When it had been ...
... manners , and he then has soon become the plaything and favourite of the company . Mr. Boswell in this year records an opinion of Sir Joshua's on the subject of conversation , which may be noticed in this place . When it had been ...
Page lxiii
... manner uncouth , his language unpolished , his elocution was continually interrupted by disagreeable hesitation , and he was always unhappy if the conversation did not turn upon himself . To manifest his intrepidity in argument , he ...
... manner uncouth , his language unpolished , his elocution was continually interrupted by disagreeable hesitation , and he was always unhappy if the conversation did not turn upon himself . To manifest his intrepidity in argument , he ...
Page lxviii
... manners of the times are slightly , but faithfully , represented ; the satire is not ostentatiously displayed , but incidentally in- volved in the business of the play ; and the suspense of the audience is artfully kept up to the last ...
... manners of the times are slightly , but faithfully , represented ; the satire is not ostentatiously displayed , but incidentally in- volved in the business of the play ; and the suspense of the audience is artfully kept up to the last ...
Page lxxiii
... by the contemplation of such a model . To me and many others it appeared that he studiously copied the manner of Johnson , only indeed upon a smaller scale . At this time I think he published nothing with his ANECDOTES OF GOLDSMITH .
... by the contemplation of such a model . To me and many others it appeared that he studiously copied the manner of Johnson , only indeed upon a smaller scale . At this time I think he published nothing with his ANECDOTES OF GOLDSMITH .
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