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Hoam's censure of Altangi for following intellectual will - o ' - the - wisps ( 2 : 176 ) reinforces the admonitory allegory communicated by Hingpo ( Letter 37 ) , of the audacious youth who climbs , Rasselas - like , out of the ...
Hoam's censure of Altangi for following intellectual will - o ' - the - wisps ( 2 : 176 ) reinforces the admonitory allegory communicated by Hingpo ( Letter 37 ) , of the audacious youth who climbs , Rasselas - like , out of the ...
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A specimen newspaper hits off national weaknesses ( Letter 5 ) , while Goldsmith delights , like Swift , in reproducing in concentrated form the clichés of pretentious connoisseurs ( Letter 34 ) , and of polite conversation ( “ he has ...
A specimen newspaper hits off national weaknesses ( Letter 5 ) , while Goldsmith delights , like Swift , in reproducing in concentrated form the clichés of pretentious connoisseurs ( Letter 34 ) , and of polite conversation ( “ he has ...
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When in Letter 16 Altangi turns his gaze on religious credulity and enmity , he looks through the eyes of d'Argens . The positive injunction in Letter 47 , however , that we should acknowledge the common ground between Christianity and ...
When in Letter 16 Altangi turns his gaze on religious credulity and enmity , he looks through the eyes of d'Argens . The positive injunction in Letter 47 , however , that we should acknowledge the common ground between Christianity and ...
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| Title | Oliver Goldsmith Revisited Issue 487 of Twayne's English authors series |
| Authors | Former Chair of English Peter Dixon, Peter Dixon |
| Contributor | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Twayne Publishers, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0805770089, 9780805770087 |
| Length | 157 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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