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On the other hand , justice also requires that unmerited praise should not go unchecked . The earl of Mulgrave's Essay upon Poetry is admitted into Goldsmith's anthology , but carries a prefatory warning that it has been praised more ...
On the other hand , justice also requires that unmerited praise should not go unchecked . The earl of Mulgrave's Essay upon Poetry is admitted into Goldsmith's anthology , but carries a prefatory warning that it has been praised more ...
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As in eighteenth - century society rich men rule the law , so in medieval times legal power and the authority of the church went hand in hand . The " tribunal of justice ” before which a cuckolded husband pleads his case against a ...
As in eighteenth - century society rich men rule the law , so in medieval times legal power and the authority of the church went hand in hand . The " tribunal of justice ” before which a cuckolded husband pleads his case against a ...
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Honor , that praise which real merit gains , Or even imaginary worth obtains , Here passes current ; paid from hand to hand , It shifts in splendid traffic round the land : From courts to camps , to cottages it strays , And all are ...
Honor , that praise which real merit gains , Or even imaginary worth obtains , Here passes current ; paid from hand to hand , It shifts in splendid traffic round the land : From courts to camps , to cottages it strays , And all are ...
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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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