The Poetical WorksG. Bell, 1867 - 186 pages |
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Page xiii
... thought , on account of former Trinity irregularities , but more probably because Oliver presented himself on the occasion in a suit of noisy scarlet instead of decorous black . To console him for this failure he received advice from ...
... thought , on account of former Trinity irregularities , but more probably because Oliver presented himself on the occasion in a suit of noisy scarlet instead of decorous black . To console him for this failure he received advice from ...
Page xiv
... thought himself a literary man when he was correcting the press for Richardson , the novelist and bookseller ; that little - read and much - decried man , whose Clarissa , read by about ten of every generation , never fails to draw ...
... thought himself a literary man when he was correcting the press for Richardson , the novelist and bookseller ; that little - read and much - decried man , whose Clarissa , read by about ten of every generation , never fails to draw ...
Page xviii
... thought it a rash speculation to print . He preserved it two years as little better than waste paper , until the success of The Traveller made him speculative . After that things went on well . There was The Good - natured Man , which ...
... thought it a rash speculation to print . He preserved it two years as little better than waste paper , until the success of The Traveller made him speculative . After that things went on well . There was The Good - natured Man , which ...
Page xix
... thought of Goldsmith ; but Mary was the " celestial star , " & c . to him , and not until four years after his death was she married to Colonel Gwyn . The attachment on his side is undoubted ; and possibly it was to some extent returned ...
... thought of Goldsmith ; but Mary was the " celestial star , " & c . to him , and not until four years after his death was she married to Colonel Gwyn . The attachment on his side is undoubted ; and possibly it was to some extent returned ...
Page xxi
... thought will flash on the reader in some way like the record of his own experience . Goldsmith is essentially the describer of , and moraliser on , what he has seen . The Traveller , or a Prospect of Society , records memories of his ...
... thought will flash on the reader in some way like the record of his own experience . Goldsmith is essentially the describer of , and moraliser on , what he has seen . The Traveller , or a Prospect of Society , records memories of his ...
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