The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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Oliver Goldsmith. HW PSJC O Harvard College Library VERI TAS FROM THE BEQUEST OF SAMUEL. HD WIDENER Front Cover.
Oliver Goldsmith. HW PSJC O Harvard College Library VERI TAS FROM THE BEQUEST OF SAMUEL. HD WIDENER Front Cover.
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Oliver Goldsmith. INTRODUCTION I THIRTY years of taking - in ; fifteen years of giving out ; —that , in brief , is Oliver Goldsmith's story . When , in 1758 , his failure to pass at Surgeons ' Hall finally threw him on letters for a ...
Oliver Goldsmith. INTRODUCTION I THIRTY years of taking - in ; fifteen years of giving out ; —that , in brief , is Oliver Goldsmith's story . When , in 1758 , his failure to pass at Surgeons ' Hall finally threw him on letters for a ...
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Oliver Goldsmith. turn , he was to re - impress upon his writings . " No man " says one of his biographers- " ever put so much of himself into his books as Goldsmith . " To his last hour he was drawing upon the thoughts and reviving the ...
Oliver Goldsmith. turn , he was to re - impress upon his writings . " No man " says one of his biographers- " ever put so much of himself into his books as Goldsmith . " To his last hour he was drawing upon the thoughts and reviving the ...
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Oliver Goldsmith. that — although so skilful a correspondent must have been fully sensible of his gifts - until , under the pressure of circumstances , he drifted into literature , the craft of letters seems never to have been his ...
Oliver Goldsmith. that — although so skilful a correspondent must have been fully sensible of his gifts - until , under the pressure of circumstances , he drifted into literature , the craft of letters seems never to have been his ...
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Oliver Goldsmith. ably from that in the first edition of the Vicar ; this again is altered in the fourth ; and there are other variations in the piece as printed in the Poems for Young Ladies . " As to my ' Hermit " , " said the poet ...
Oliver Goldsmith. ably from that in the first edition of the Vicar ; this again is altered in the fourth ; and there are other variations in the piece as printed in the Poems for Young Ladies . " As to my ' Hermit " , " said the poet ...
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