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3 Johnson's commendation would certainly have " prompted some such claim , and Goldsmith , who would have regarded Johnson's praise of the driver as virtually a moral provocation , would have been accused ( as he invariably was ) of ...
3 Johnson's commendation would certainly have " prompted some such claim , and Goldsmith , who would have regarded Johnson's praise of the driver as virtually a moral provocation , would have been accused ( as he invariably was ) of ...
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a we are about to read something moral , even morally didactic , an exemplification of rising and falling fortunes . The title page promises a curious compound , which may prove on analysis to be somewhat unstable .
a we are about to read something moral , even morally didactic , an exemplification of rising and falling fortunes . The title page promises a curious compound , which may prove on analysis to be somewhat unstable .
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Its main plot , however , is unmistakably genteel , not to say aristocratic , in tone , and the anguish and complications are resolved in a tearful scene of reconciliation . These are moral tears , as the heroine ...
Its main plot , however , is unmistakably genteel , not to say aristocratic , in tone , and the anguish and complications are resolved in a tearful scene of reconciliation . These are moral tears , as the heroine ...
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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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