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... appeared before . The numerous testimonials to the excellence of this series , which the publishers have received , both from the press and the public , in all parts of the country , would seem to indicate that a popular want has been ...
... appeared before . The numerous testimonials to the excellence of this series , which the publishers have received , both from the press and the public , in all parts of the country , would seem to indicate that a popular want has been ...
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... him with more than usual severity . His stature was small , and his limbs ill put together . Among boys , little tenderness is shown to personal de- fects ; and the ridicule excited by poor Oliver's appearance MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH . xi.
... him with more than usual severity . His stature was small , and his limbs ill put together . Among boys , little tenderness is shown to personal de- fects ; and the ridicule excited by poor Oliver's appearance MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH . xi.
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Oliver Goldsmith. fects ; and the ridicule excited by poor Oliver's appearance , was heightened by a peculiar sim- plicity and a disposition to blunder which he retained to the last . He became the common butt of boys and masters , was ...
Oliver Goldsmith. fects ; and the ridicule excited by poor Oliver's appearance , was heightened by a peculiar sim- plicity and a disposition to blunder which he retained to the last . He became the common butt of boys and masters , was ...
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... bound in gilt paper and adorned with hideous woodcuts , appeared in the window of the once far - famed shop at the corner of Saint Paul's Churchyard ; An Inquiry into the State of Polite Learning xvi MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH .
... bound in gilt paper and adorned with hideous woodcuts , appeared in the window of the once far - famed shop at the corner of Saint Paul's Churchyard ; An Inquiry into the State of Polite Learning xvi MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH .
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... appeared in print , came the great crisis of Goldsmith's literary life . In Christmas week , 1764 , he published a poem , entitled the Traveller . It was the first work to which he had put his name ; and it at once raised him to the ...
... appeared in print , came the great crisis of Goldsmith's literary life . In Christmas week , 1764 , he published a poem , entitled the Traveller . It was the first work to which he had put his name ; and it at once raised him to the ...
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