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The fireside was Goldsmith's customary synecdoche for domestic content , though he never worked it as hard as he does here . The preface speaks of the “ simplicity of the Vicar's “ country fireside ” ; the second paragraph of his tale ...
The fireside was Goldsmith's customary synecdoche for domestic content , though he never worked it as hard as he does here . The preface speaks of the “ simplicity of the Vicar's “ country fireside ” ; the second paragraph of his tale ...
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As Tony ruefully admits , “ I thought you could never be making believe . " Earlier he has deliberately misinterpreted his mother's real consternation over the jewels — how she fidgets and spits about like a catherine - wheel ” —as ...
As Tony ruefully admits , “ I thought you could never be making believe . " Earlier he has deliberately misinterpreted his mother's real consternation over the jewels — how she fidgets and spits about like a catherine - wheel ” —as ...
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I never met with such impudence , curse me , never in my whole life before " ( 5 : 182 ) . The barrage of personal pronouns gives great force to this assault on the sacred notion of property . If a man cannot call his house his own ...
I never met with such impudence , curse me , never in my whole life before " ( 5 : 182 ) . The barrage of personal pronouns gives great force to this assault on the sacred notion of property . If a man cannot call his house his own ...
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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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