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Goldsmith improves on that , with calculated banality : “ There lived a cobblersome people do laugh at this story and some do not . " Neither that bit of foolery , nor the deliberate inadequacies of his anecdote , seem to have been ...
Goldsmith improves on that , with calculated banality : “ There lived a cobblersome people do laugh at this story and some do not . " Neither that bit of foolery , nor the deliberate inadequacies of his anecdote , seem to have been ...
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The wise bustle and laugh as they walk in the pageant , but fools bustle and are important ; and this , probably , is all the difference between them " ( 2 : 470 ) . Laughter will at least show us to be possessed of a sense of ...
The wise bustle and laugh as they walk in the pageant , but fools bustle and are important ; and this , probably , is all the difference between them " ( 2 : 470 ) . Laughter will at least show us to be possessed of a sense of ...
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We know his chameleon nature , and we are soon to hear Mrs. Croaker reminding him , in an echo of her husband's words , you know I never laugh so much as with you . " The plot of The Good - Natured Man is designed to expose deception ...
We know his chameleon nature , and we are soon to hear Mrs. Croaker reminding him , in an echo of her husband's words , you know I never laugh so much as with you . " The plot of The Good - Natured Man is designed to expose deception ...
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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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