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Contents Preface Chronology Chapter One Early Years : The Search for Recognition 1 Chapter Two Learning the Trade 22 Chapter Three The Observant Exile 38 Chapter Four Biographies 64 Chapter Five The Vicar of Wakefield 75 Chapter Six ...
Contents Preface Chronology Chapter One Early Years : The Search for Recognition 1 Chapter Two Learning the Trade 22 Chapter Three The Observant Exile 38 Chapter Four Biographies 64 Chapter Five The Vicar of Wakefield 75 Chapter Six ...
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That Padovano , at least , is to be considered primarily as an object of scientific curiosity , is clear from the relationship between his biography ( the Westminster Magazine essay , 1773 ) and the chapter Of Sleep and Hunger ” in the ...
That Padovano , at least , is to be considered primarily as an object of scientific curiosity , is clear from the relationship between his biography ( the Westminster Magazine essay , 1773 ) and the chapter Of Sleep and Hunger ” in the ...
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As with the character of Beau Nash , we have to lay side by side the Vicar's evident failings , which Goldsmith brings out again in the final chapter , and his real merits : his tender forgiveness of his daughter and his refusal to ...
As with the character of Beau Nash , we have to lay side by side the Vicar's evident failings , which Goldsmith brings out again in the final chapter , and his real merits : his tender forgiveness of his daughter and his refusal to ...
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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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