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Page ix
... there is no evidence that he had written much when he entered upon what has been called his second period , he had not the less formed his opinions on many literary questions . Much of the matter of the Polite Learning is plainly ...
... there is no evidence that he had written much when he entered upon what has been called his second period , he had not the less formed his opinions on many literary questions . Much of the matter of the Polite Learning is plainly ...
Page xii
... There is in it , " he says , " a strain of political thinking that was , at that time , new in our poetry . " He obviously intended that The Traveller should be admired for the same reason ; and both in that poem and its successor , The ...
... There is in it , " he says , " a strain of political thinking that was , at that time , new in our poetry . " He obviously intended that The Traveller should be admired for the same reason ; and both in that poem and its successor , The ...
Page xx
... there is not a sickly or a maudlin word . Even Sheridan , writing The Rivals two years later , thought it politic to insert " Faulkland " and " Julia " for the benefit of the sentimentalists . Goldsmith made no such concession , and his ...
... there is not a sickly or a maudlin word . Even Sheridan , writing The Rivals two years later , thought it politic to insert " Faulkland " and " Julia " for the benefit of the sentimentalists . Goldsmith made no such concession , and his ...
Page 4
... there may be equal happiness in states that are differently governed from our own ; that every state has a particular principle of happiness , and that this principle in each may be carried to a mischievous excess . There are few can ...
... there may be equal happiness in states that are differently governed from our own ; that every state has a particular principle of happiness , and that this principle in each may be carried to a mischievous excess . There are few can ...
Page 9
... There in the ruin , heedless of the dead , The shelter - seeking peasant builds his shed . And , wond'ring man could want the larger pile , Exults , and owns his cottage with a smile . My soul , turn from them , turn we to survey Where ...
... There in the ruin , heedless of the dead , The shelter - seeking peasant builds his shed . And , wond'ring man could want the larger pile , Exults , and owns his cottage with a smile . My soul , turn from them , turn we to survey Where ...
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