The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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Page viii
... seems to have been an indispensable prepara- tion for the other , and to marvel once more ( with the philosopher Square ) at " the eternal Fitness of Things . " II The events of Goldsmith's life have been too often narrated to need ...
... seems to have been an indispensable prepara- tion for the other , and to marvel once more ( with the philosopher Square ) at " the eternal Fitness of Things . " II The events of Goldsmith's life have been too often narrated to need ...
Page ix
... 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 which he ...
... 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 which he ...
Page x
... seems to have genuinely appreciated the work of Collins . Churchill , and Churchill's satire , he detested . With Young he had some personal acquaintance , and had attentively read his Night Thoughts . Of the poets of the last age , he ...
... seems to have genuinely appreciated the work of Collins . Churchill , and Churchill's satire , he detested . With Young he had some personal acquaintance , and had attentively read his Night Thoughts . Of the poets of the last age , he ...
Page xviii
... seems to haunt him . In The Good - Natur'd Man he has absorbed it altogether , for he places it , without inverted commas , in the lips of Croaker . But , if its lack of constructive power and its errors of conception make it impossible ...
... seems to haunt him . In The Good - Natur'd Man he has absorbed it altogether , for he places it , without inverted commas , in the lips of Croaker . But , if its lack of constructive power and its errors of conception make it impossible ...
Page xix
... seem almost inconceivable that its stage qualities can ever have been questioned . Yet questioned they undoubtedly were , and Goldsmith was spared none of his former humiliations . Even from the outset , all was against him . His ...
... seem almost inconceivable that its stage qualities can ever have been questioned . Yet questioned they undoubtedly were , and Goldsmith was spared none of his former humiliations . Even from the outset , all was against him . His ...
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