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He was to write later of that “ Unaccountable fondness for country , this maladie du Pays , as the french call it , " and to confess to this fondness even though he had received nothing but civil contempt ' while living in Ireland .
He was to write later of that “ Unaccountable fondness for country , this maladie du Pays , as the french call it , " and to confess to this fondness even though he had received nothing but civil contempt ' while living in Ireland .
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... Europe in which I am not a debtor , " 28 and his early essays , as Ralph Wardle points out , reveal an intimate knowledge of the art of living on credit , and of the rebuffs and excuses that meet the man who tries to borrow money .
... Europe in which I am not a debtor , " 28 and his early essays , as Ralph Wardle points out , reveal an intimate knowledge of the art of living on credit , and of the rebuffs and excuses that meet the man who tries to borrow money .
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31 Rather than appeal for help , he determined to seek a living in London . His enemy now was English insularity ; he later claimed that the deep prejudice of Londoners against the Irish — his brogue immediately identified him - kept ...
31 Rather than appeal for help , he determined to seek a living in London . His enemy now was English insularity ; he later claimed that the deep prejudice of Londoners against the Irish — his brogue immediately identified him - kept ...
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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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