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Goldsmith , he declared , had been " at no pains to fill his mind with knowledge . He transplanted it from one place to another ; and it did not settle in his mind ; so he could not tell what was in his own books .
Goldsmith , he declared , had been " at no pains to fill his mind with knowledge . He transplanted it from one place to another ; and it did not settle in his mind ; so he could not tell what was in his own books .
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... incipient dangers in the French scale of values : So blest a life these thoughtless realms display , Thus idly busy rolls their world away ; Theirs are those arts that mind to mind endear , For honor forms the social temper here .
... incipient dangers in the French scale of values : So blest a life these thoughtless realms display , Thus idly busy rolls their world away ; Theirs are those arts that mind to mind endear , For honor forms the social temper here .
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that was but injustice ; your benevolence , that was but weakness ” —and concludes by reproaching him for the “ prostitution of his mind . This echoes Leontine's earlier accusation that Honeywood's compliance and so - called friendship ...
that was but injustice ; your benevolence , that was but weakness ” —and concludes by reproaching him for the “ prostitution of his mind . This echoes Leontine's earlier accusation that Honeywood's compliance and so - called friendship ...
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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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