The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Now First Collected. With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. In two volumes..H. Goldney, 1780 |
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Page viii
... some courses of anatomy in Dublin , pro- ceeded to Edinburgh , in the year 1751 , where he ftudied the feveral branches of medicine under the different profeffors in that university . His beneficent difpofi- tion foon involved him in ...
... some courses of anatomy in Dublin , pro- ceeded to Edinburgh , in the year 1751 , where he ftudied the feveral branches of medicine under the different profeffors in that university . His beneficent difpofi- tion foon involved him in ...
Page xi
... some reputation by the criticisms he had written in the Monthly Review , Mr. Griffith , the prin- cipal proprietor , engaged him in the com- pilation of it ; and , refolving to pursue the profeffion of writing , he returned to London ...
... some reputation by the criticisms he had written in the Monthly Review , Mr. Griffith , the prin- cipal proprietor , engaged him in the com- pilation of it ; and , refolving to pursue the profeffion of writing , he returned to London ...
Page lix
... Some hermit of the dale , infhrined in ease , Long loft companion of my youthful days ; " With whose sweet converfe in his social bower , " I oft may chide away fome vacant hour ; " To whose pure fympathy , I may impart “ Each latent ...
... Some hermit of the dale , infhrined in ease , Long loft companion of my youthful days ; " With whose sweet converfe in his social bower , " I oft may chide away fome vacant hour ; " To whose pure fympathy , I may impart “ Each latent ...
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... . Another correfpondent of yours accufes me of having taken a ballad , I published some time ago , VOL . I. C from * from one by the ingenious Mr. Percy . I [ 17 ] Letter, addreffed to the Printer of the St James's Chronicle.
... . Another correfpondent of yours accufes me of having taken a ballad , I published some time ago , VOL . I. C from * from one by the ingenious Mr. Percy . I [ 17 ] Letter, addreffed to the Printer of the St James's Chronicle.
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... some half - witted thing , who wants to be thought a bold man , having loft the character of a wife one . Him they dignify with the name of poet his tawdry lampoons are called fatires ; his turbulence is faid to be force , and his ...
... some half - witted thing , who wants to be thought a bold man , having loft the character of a wife one . Him they dignify with the name of poet his tawdry lampoons are called fatires ; his turbulence is faid to be force , and his ...
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