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Not only was Nash , like his biographer , a gamester , he also took , and got away with , immense social risks . He perfected an insolence that is a blunter kind of raillery : “ Nash , though no great wit , had the art of sometimes ...
Not only was Nash , like his biographer , a gamester , he also took , and got away with , immense social risks . He perfected an insolence that is a blunter kind of raillery : “ Nash , though no great wit , had the art of sometimes ...
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The British set too high a value on freedom , exalting it at the expense of social unity and the ties of honor and love . The vaunted independence of these “ lordlings " —the noun is effectively disparaging — brings about a condition a ...
The British set too high a value on freedom , exalting it at the expense of social unity and the ties of honor and love . The vaunted independence of these “ lordlings " —the noun is effectively disparaging — brings about a condition a ...
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[ With " fellow " he brutally propels Hardcastle down several rungs of the social ladder . ] It's my house . This is my house , mine while I choose to stay . What right have you to bid me leave this house , sir ?
[ With " fellow " he brutally propels Hardcastle down several rungs of the social ladder . ] It's my house . This is my house , mine while I choose to stay . What right have you to bid me leave this house , sir ?
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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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