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... J. M. Dent ( d . 1926 ) Edited by Ernest Rhys ( d . 1946 ) POETRY & THE DRAMA POEMS AND PLAYS • BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH · INTRODUC- TION AND NOTES BY AUSTIN DOBSON OLIVER GOLDSMITH , born at Pallasmore , Co. Longford ,. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY.
... J. M. Dent ( d . 1926 ) Edited by Ernest Rhys ( d . 1946 ) POETRY & THE DRAMA POEMS AND PLAYS • BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH · INTRODUC- TION AND NOTES BY AUSTIN DOBSON OLIVER GOLDSMITH , born at Pallasmore , Co. Longford ,. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY.
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Oliver Goldsmith. & OLIVER GOLDSMITH LONDON : J. M. DENT & SONS LTD . NEW YORK : E. P. DUTTON & CO . INC . Made in Great Britain at The Temple Press Letchworth for POEMS AND PLAYS.
Oliver Goldsmith. & OLIVER GOLDSMITH LONDON : J. M. DENT & SONS LTD . NEW YORK : E. P. DUTTON & CO . INC . Made in Great Britain at The Temple Press Letchworth for POEMS AND PLAYS.
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... Poems and Plays , some brief preamble to those branches of his work may be excusable , and even useful . And , with regard to both , what strikes one first is the extreme tardiness of that late blossoming to which Johnson referred ...
... Poems and Plays , some brief preamble to those branches of his work may be excusable , and even useful . And , with regard to both , what strikes one first is the extreme tardiness of that late blossoming to which Johnson referred ...
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... " which was fatal to " agreeable trifling , " -an objection intimately connected with the feeling which afterwards made him the champion on the stage of character and humour . Among the poets who * 415 Introduction ix.
... " which was fatal to " agreeable trifling , " -an objection intimately connected with the feeling which afterwards made him the champion on the stage of character and humour . Among the poets who * 415 Introduction ix.
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... poem , but " overloaded with epithet , " and he deplored the remoteness and want of emotion which distinguished the Pindaric Odes . Yet from many indications in his own writings , he seems to have genuinely appreciated the work of ...
... poem , but " overloaded with epithet , " and he deplored the remoteness and want of emotion which distinguished the Pindaric Odes . Yet from many indications in his own writings , he seems to have genuinely appreciated the work of ...
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