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... poem , ancient or modern , has a plan so noble , and at the same time so simple . An Eng- lish wanderer , seated on a crag among the Alps , near the point where three great countries meet , looks down on the boundless prospect , reviews ...
... poem , ancient or modern , has a plan so noble , and at the same time so simple . An Eng- lish wanderer , seated on a crag among the Alps , near the point where three great countries meet , looks down on the boundless prospect , reviews ...
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... poem is fully equal , perhaps superior to the Trav- eller ; and it is generally preferred to the Trav- eller by that ... poem , considered merely as a poem , is not neces- sarily the worse on that account . The finest poem in the Latin ...
... poem is fully equal , perhaps superior to the Trav- eller ; and it is generally preferred to the Trav- eller by that ... poem , considered merely as a poem , is not neces- sarily the worse on that account . The finest poem in the Latin ...
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Oliver Goldsmith. didactic poem in any language , was written in defence of the silliest and meanest of all systems of natural and moral philosophy . A poet may easily be pardoned for reasoning ill ; but he can- not be pardoned for ...
Oliver Goldsmith. didactic poem in any language , was written in defence of the silliest and meanest of all systems of natural and moral philosophy . A poet may easily be pardoned for reasoning ill ; but he can- not be pardoned for ...
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... poem appeared , which will , as long as our lan- guage lasts , associate the names of his two illus- trious friends with his own . It has already been mentioned that he sometimes felt keenly the sar- casm which his wild blundering talk ...
... poem appeared , which will , as long as our lan- guage lasts , associate the names of his two illus- trious friends with his own . It has already been mentioned that he sometimes felt keenly the sar- casm which his wild blundering talk ...
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... Poets . No man ap- preciated Goldsmith's writings more justly than Johnson ; no man was better acquainted with Goldsmith's character and habits ; and no man was more competent to delineate with truth and spirit the peculiarities of a ...
... Poets . No man ap- preciated Goldsmith's writings more justly than Johnson ; no man was better acquainted with Goldsmith's character and habits ; and no man was more competent to delineate with truth and spirit the peculiarities of a ...
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