The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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Page vii
... letters for a living , the thirty years were finished , and the fifteen years had been begun . What was to come he knew not ; but , from his bare - walled lodging in Green - Arbour - Court , he could at least look back upon a ...
... letters for a living , the thirty years were finished , and the fifteen years had been begun . What was to come he knew not ; but , from his bare - walled lodging in Green - Arbour - Court , he could at least look back upon a ...
Page viii
... letter as a " poet , " it must have been solely upon the strength of the unpublished fragment of The Traveller , which in the interval , he had sent to his brother Henry from abroad . It is even more remarkable that although so skilful ...
... letter as a " poet , " it must have been solely upon the strength of the unpublished fragment of The Traveller , which in the interval , he had sent to his brother Henry from abroad . It is even more remarkable that although so skilful ...
Page ix
... letters seems never to have been his ambition . He thinks of being a lawyer , a physician , a clergyman , - anything but an author ; and when at last he engages in that profession , it is to free himself from a scholastic servitude ...
... letters seems never to have been his ambition . He thinks of being a lawyer , a physician , a clergyman , - anything but an author ; and when at last he engages in that profession , it is to free himself from a scholastic servitude ...
Page xi
... the quotation which he struck out of the second issue of the Polite Learning , " Hand inexpertus loquor . " Of his longer pieces , The Traveller was apparently > suggested to him by Addison's Letter from Italy to Introduction xi.
... the quotation which he struck out of the second issue of the Polite Learning , " Hand inexpertus loquor . " Of his longer pieces , The Traveller was apparently > suggested to him by Addison's Letter from Italy to Introduction xi.
Page xii
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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