The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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Page vii
... come he knew not ; but , from his bare - walled lodging in Green - Arbour - Court , he could at least look back upon a sufficiently diversified past . He had been an idle , orchard - robbing schoolboy ; a tuneful but intractable sizar ...
... come he knew not ; but , from his bare - walled lodging in Green - Arbour - Court , he could at least look back upon a sufficiently diversified past . He had been an idle , orchard - robbing schoolboy ; a tuneful but intractable sizar ...
Page xii
... comes between them - the once famous Edwin and Angelina— Goldsmith certainly carried out Boileau's maxim to the full . The first privately - printed version differs consider- ably from that in the first edition of the Vicar xii ...
... comes between them - the once famous Edwin and Angelina— Goldsmith certainly carried out Boileau's maxim to the full . The first privately - printed version differs consider- ably from that in the first edition of the Vicar xii ...
Page xvii
... come between the wind and its gentility . Yet , in spite of all these dis- advantages , The Good - Natur'd Man obtained a hearing , besides bringing its author about five hundred pounds , a sum far larger than anything he had ever made ...
... come between the wind and its gentility . Yet , in spite of all these dis- advantages , The Good - Natur'd Man obtained a hearing , besides bringing its author about five hundred pounds , a sum far larger than anything he had ever made ...
Page 3
... come in for a share . As these offer the feeble mind a less laborious entertainment , they at first rival Poetry , and at length supplant her ; they engross all that favour once shown to her , and though but younger sisters , seize upon ...
... come in for a share . As these offer the feeble mind a less laborious entertainment , they at first rival Poetry , and at length supplant her ; they engross all that favour once shown to her , and though but younger sisters , seize upon ...
Page 14
... come , when stripp'd of all her charms , The land of scholars , and the nurse of arms , Where noble stems transmit the patriot flame , Where kings have toil'd , and poets wrote for fame , " One sink of level avarice shall lie , And 14 ...
... come , when stripp'd of all her charms , The land of scholars , and the nurse of arms , Where noble stems transmit the patriot flame , Where kings have toil'd , and poets wrote for fame , " One sink of level avarice shall lie , And 14 ...
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