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The passionate arguments of “ The Revolution in Low Life ” also underpin the critique of British society presented in the later part of " The Traveller . " The British set too high a value on freedom , exalting it at the expense of ...
The passionate arguments of “ The Revolution in Low Life ” also underpin the critique of British society presented in the later part of " The Traveller . " The British set too high a value on freedom , exalting it at the expense of ...
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So the poet of “ The Traveller " chooses to " fly from petty tyrants " —the overreaching oligarchs— “ to the throne . ” Or , as the Vicar of Wakefield puts it in his political harangue , the “ election of a monarch ( Goldsmith prefers ...
So the poet of “ The Traveller " chooses to " fly from petty tyrants " —the overreaching oligarchs— “ to the throne . ” Or , as the Vicar of Wakefield puts it in his political harangue , the “ election of a monarch ( Goldsmith prefers ...
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... A , " 107 , 148n8 ; see also “ The Traveller " “ Retaliation , " 138–41 " Theseus did see , ” 3 “ Threnodia Augustalis , " 19 , 67–68 " Traveller , The , " 14 , 40 , 41-42 , 63 , 77 , 98–99 , 101-9 , 117 37 , 38-57 , 58 , 63 , 74 ...
... A , " 107 , 148n8 ; see also “ The Traveller " “ Retaliation , " 138–41 " Theseus did see , ” 3 “ Threnodia Augustalis , " 19 , 67–68 " Traveller , The , " 14 , 40 , 41-42 , 63 , 77 , 98–99 , 101-9 , 117 37 , 38-57 , 58 , 63 , 74 ...
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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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