The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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Page ix
... entered upon what has been called his second period , he had not the less formed his opinions on many literary questions . Much of the matter of the Polite Learning is plainly manufactured ad hoc ; but in its references to the ...
... entered upon what has been called his second period , he had not the less formed his opinions on many literary questions . Much of the matter of the Polite Learning is plainly manufactured ad hoc ; but in its references to the ...
Page xvii
... entered into a tacit league with Garrick not to produce it at Covent Garden until his former rival had brought out at Drury Lane a comedy by Goldsmith's countryman , Hugh Kelly , a sentimentalist of the first water . Upon the heels of ...
... entered into a tacit league with Garrick not to produce it at Covent Garden until his former rival had brought out at Drury Lane a comedy by Goldsmith's countryman , Hugh Kelly , a sentimentalist of the first water . Upon the heels of ...
Page 3
... entered upon a sacred office , where the harvest is great , and the labourers are but few ; while you have left the field of Ambition , where the labourers are many , and the harvest not worth carrying away . But of all kinds of ...
... entered upon a sacred office , where the harvest is great , and the labourers are but few ; while you have left the field of Ambition , where the labourers are many , and the harvest not worth carrying away . But of all kinds of ...
Page 21
... enter into an enquiry , whether the country be depopulating , or not ; the discussion would take up much room , and I should prove myself , at best , an indifferent politician , to tire the reader with a long preface when I want his ...
... enter into an enquiry , whether the country be depopulating , or not ; the discussion would take up much room , and I should prove myself , at best , an indifferent politician , to tire the reader with a long preface when I want his ...
Page 48
... enter'd ; An under - bred , fine - spoken fellow was he , And he smil'd as he look'd at the venison and me . " What have we got here ? -Why this is good eating ! Your own , I suppose or is it in waiting ? " " Why , whose should it be ...
... enter'd ; An under - bred , fine - spoken fellow was he , And he smil'd as he look'd at the venison and me . " What have we got here ? -Why this is good eating ! Your own , I suppose or is it in waiting ? " " Why , whose should it be ...
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