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They please , are pleased , they give to get esteem , Till , seeming blest , they grow to what they seem . a The lines illustrate at once the limitations and the strengths of Goldsmith's verse . His couplets have neither the spring and ...
They please , are pleased , they give to get esteem , Till , seeming blest , they grow to what they seem . a The lines illustrate at once the limitations and the strengths of Goldsmith's verse . His couplets have neither the spring and ...
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... who , to begin with , rewrote his friend's wilting line as “ To stop too fearful , and too faint to go . ... that corresponds with the final verse paragraph of “ The Traveller , " 8 of whose 16 lines were contributed by Johnson .
... who , to begin with , rewrote his friend's wilting line as “ To stop too fearful , and too faint to go . ... that corresponds with the final verse paragraph of “ The Traveller , " 8 of whose 16 lines were contributed by Johnson .
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The last four lines ( the last lines of the poem ) are Johnson's ; his therefore are the poem's final prophetic note and its air of confidence . Plaintiveness is pushed into the background . ' Can time defy is more optimistic than “ may ...
The last four lines ( the last lines of the poem ) are Johnson's ; his therefore are the poem's final prophetic note and its air of confidence . Plaintiveness is pushed into the background . ' Can time defy is more optimistic than “ may ...
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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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