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Catherine , in retelling this story of a “ foolish ramble , ” is probably recording , as Katharine Balderston suggests , her brother's first piece of fiction . 15 One detail — that his mean friend offered to loan him a horse but ...
Catherine , in retelling this story of a “ foolish ramble , ” is probably recording , as Katharine Balderston suggests , her brother's first piece of fiction . 15 One detail — that his mean friend offered to loan him a horse but ...
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Goldsmith improves on that , with calculated banality : “ There lived a cobblersome people do laugh at this story and some do not . " Neither that bit of foolery , nor the deliberate inadequacies of his anecdote , seem to have been ...
Goldsmith improves on that , with calculated banality : “ There lived a cobblersome people do laugh at this story and some do not . " Neither that bit of foolery , nor the deliberate inadequacies of his anecdote , seem to have been ...
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He was famous ... for singing them ballads , and telling them stories " ( 4:39 ) . ... We seem at times to be reading an allegory , with a touch of the fairy story about it , in which Innocence and Simplicity , aided by Wise ...
He was famous ... for singing them ballads , and telling them stories " ( 4:39 ) . ... We seem at times to be reading an allegory , with a touch of the fairy story about it , in which Innocence and Simplicity , aided by Wise ...
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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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