The Poems and Plays of Oliver GoldsmithJ. M. Dent, 1917 - 317 pages |
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Page vii
... things — a medical student , a strolling musician , a corrector of the press , an apothecary , an usher at a Peckham " academy . " Judged by ordinary standards , he had wantonly wasted his time . And yet , as things fell out , it is ...
... things — a medical student , a strolling musician , a corrector of the press , an apothecary , an usher at a Peckham " academy . " Judged by ordinary standards , he had wantonly wasted his time . And yet , as things fell out , it is ...
Page viii
... Things . " II The events of Goldsmith's life have been too often narrated to need repetition here , and we shall not resort to the well - worn device of repeating them in order to say so . But , in a fresh reprint of his Poems and Plays ...
... Things . " II The events of Goldsmith's life have been too often narrated to need repetition here , and we shall not resort to the well - worn device of repeating them in order to say so . But , in a fresh reprint of his Poems and Plays ...
Page ix
... things with which he had become familiar during his brief bondage on the Monthly Review . As to his personal views on poetry in particular , it is easy to collect them from this , and later utterances . Against blank verse he protests ...
... things with which he had become familiar during his brief bondage on the Monthly Review . As to his personal views on poetry in particular , it is easy to collect them from this , and later utterances . Against blank verse he protests ...
Page xv
... things within him , should engage in that most tantalizing of all enterprises , the pursuit of dramatic success . 66 For acting and actors he had always shown a decided partiality . Vague stories , based , in all probability , upon the ...
... things within him , should engage in that most tantalizing of all enterprises , the pursuit of dramatic success . 66 For acting and actors he had always shown a decided partiality . Vague stories , based , in all probability , upon the ...
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... thing , who wants to be thought a bold man , having lost the character of a wise one . Him they dignify with the name of poet ; his tawdry lampoons are called satires , his turbulence is said to be force , and his phrensy fire.1 What ...
... thing , who wants to be thought a bold man , having lost the character of a wise one . Him they dignify with the name of poet ; his tawdry lampoons are called satires , his turbulence is said to be force , and his phrensy fire.1 What ...
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