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... before turning to the suffering and distress of the houseless poor . The next and final item touches on poverty and beggary too , but in a very different vein : this is the mock - elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize , pawnbroker : The needy ...
... before turning to the suffering and distress of the houseless poor . The next and final item touches on poverty and beggary too , but in a very different vein : this is the mock - elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize , pawnbroker : The needy ...
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11 Both Sidney Bidulph and David Simple explicitly relate the patient suffering of their protagonists to the archetypal ... and Afflictions , " but , like Job , he “ patiently submitted to the temporary Sufferings allotted him .
11 Both Sidney Bidulph and David Simple explicitly relate the patient suffering of their protagonists to the archetypal ... and Afflictions , " but , like Job , he “ patiently submitted to the temporary Sufferings allotted him .
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But we are also reading a Christian parable of suffering and redemption . " 22 It is undoubtedly to the novel's advantage that it is not as straightforward and singleminded as its own preface , and some of its critics , would make it .
But we are also reading a Christian parable of suffering and redemption . " 22 It is undoubtedly to the novel's advantage that it is not as straightforward and singleminded as its own preface , and some of its critics , would make it .
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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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