The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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Page ix
... 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 which he appears ...
... 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 which he appears ...
Page xii
... never made in vain . Employing the couplet of Pope and Johnson , he has added to his measure a suavity that belonged to neither ; but the beauty of his humanity and the tender melan- choly of his wistful retrospect hold us more strongly ...
... never made in vain . Employing the couplet of Pope and Johnson , he has added to his measure a suavity that belonged to neither ; but the beauty of his humanity and the tender melan- choly of his wistful retrospect hold us more strongly ...
Page xiii
... never been babbled " in extremis vicis " by successive generations of schoolboys . It is usually said , probably with truth , that in these poems and the delightful Letter to Mrs. Bunbury , Goldsmith's metre was suggested by the ...
... never been babbled " in extremis vicis " by successive generations of schoolboys . It is usually said , probably with truth , that in these poems and the delightful Letter to Mrs. Bunbury , Goldsmith's metre was suggested by the ...
Page xvii
... never since passed into the répertoire , and , if it had something of the freshness of a first effort , it had also its inexperience . The chief character , Honeywood - the weak and amiable " good- natur'd man " -never stands very ...
... never since passed into the répertoire , and , if it had something of the freshness of a first effort , it had also its inexperience . The chief character , Honeywood - the weak and amiable " good- natur'd man " -never stands very ...
Page xviii
... never abandoned his ambition to restore humour and character to the stage ; and as time went on , the sense of his past discouragements grew fainter , while the success of The Deserted Village increased his importance as an author . " 3 ...
... never abandoned his ambition to restore humour and character to the stage ; and as time went on , the sense of his past discouragements grew fainter , while the success of The Deserted Village increased his importance as an author . " 3 ...
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