The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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Oliver Goldsmith. " suggested to him by Addison's Letter from Italy to Lord Halifax , a poem to which , in his preliminary notes to the Beauties of English Poesy , he gives significant praise . " There is in it , " he says , " a strain ...
Oliver Goldsmith. " suggested to him by Addison's Letter from Italy to Lord Halifax , a poem to which , in his preliminary notes to the Beauties of English Poesy , he gives significant praise . " There is in it , " he says , " a strain ...
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... Lord Clare's pasty was not , are as well known as any of the stock passages of The Deserted Village or The Traveller , though they have never been babbled " in extremis vicis " by successive generations of schoolboys . It is usually ...
... Lord Clare's pasty was not , are as well known as any of the stock passages of The Deserted Village or The Traveller , though they have never been babbled " in extremis vicis " by successive generations of schoolboys . It is usually ...
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... Lord Lisburn , " they ✓ would let me starve ; but by my other labours I can make shift to eat , and drink , and have good clothes . " It was in his " other labours " that his poems helped him . The booksellers who would not or could ...
... Lord Lisburn , " they ✓ would let me starve ; but by my other labours I can make shift to eat , and drink , and have good clothes . " It was in his " other labours " that his poems helped him . The booksellers who would not or could ...
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... Lord Ogleby , " seemed to herald a return to the side of laughter as opposed to that of tears , he took heart of grace , and , calling to mind something of the old inconsiderate benevolence which had been the Goldsmith family - failing ...
... Lord Ogleby , " seemed to herald a return to the side of laughter as opposed to that of tears , he took heart of grace , and , calling to mind something of the old inconsiderate benevolence which had been the Goldsmith family - failing ...
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... Lord Viscount Boling- broke , 1770 ; The History of England , from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II . , 4 vols . , 1771 ; Abridged Edition , 1774 ; Threnodia Augustalis , sacred to the memory of Her Royal High- ness the ...
... Lord Viscount Boling- broke , 1770 ; The History of England , from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II . , 4 vols . , 1771 ; Abridged Edition , 1774 ; Threnodia Augustalis , sacred to the memory of Her Royal High- ness the ...
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