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James Prior first drew attention to Goldsmith's admiration for the recently deceased Holberg . It is a plausible conjecture that Goldsmith was modeling himself on a man who from humble beginnings ...
James Prior first drew attention to Goldsmith's admiration for the recently deceased Holberg . It is a plausible conjecture that Goldsmith was modeling himself on a man who from humble beginnings ...
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It devalues the currency of praise ( 2 : 414 ; 3 : 175 ) , and demeans both the flatterer and the flattered , since it betrays not admiration but contempt for its subject . At its worst it panders to our vanity , literally turns our ...
It devalues the currency of praise ( 2 : 414 ; 3 : 175 ) , and demeans both the flatterer and the flattered , since it betrays not admiration but contempt for its subject . At its worst it panders to our vanity , literally turns our ...
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Goldsmith's admiration for such effrontery is subsumed in a more sober admiration for the success of Nash's civilizing mission : “ He first taught a familiar intercourse among strangers at Bath and Tunbridge , which still subsists among ...
Goldsmith's admiration for such effrontery is subsumed in a more sober admiration for the success of Nash's civilizing mission : “ He first taught a familiar intercourse among strangers at Bath and Tunbridge , which still subsists among ...
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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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