Johnson & Goldsmith & Their PoetryAMS Press, 1971 - 175 pages |
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Page 53
... letter'd heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade , Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; Yet hope ... letters to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail , Toil , envy , want , the patron , and the jail ...
... letter'd heart ; Should no disease thy torpid veins invade , Nor Melancholy's phantoms haunt thy shade ; Yet hope ... letters to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail , Toil , envy , want , the patron , and the jail ...
Page 79
... letters Goldsmith had still to depend for a livelihood upon his contributions to periodicals and his miscellaneous hack - work for the booksellers , for whom he compiled various volumes of biography and history - a life of Beau Nash , a ...
... letters Goldsmith had still to depend for a livelihood upon his contributions to periodicals and his miscellaneous hack - work for the booksellers , for whom he compiled various volumes of biography and history - a life of Beau Nash , a ...
Page 83
... Letters " are full of autobiography . In his miscellane- ous essays he everlastingly discourses , avowedly or unavowedly , about himself . " She Stoops to " " Conquer " is known to have been based upon a highly characteristic youthful ...
... Letters " are full of autobiography . In his miscellane- ous essays he everlastingly discourses , avowedly or unavowedly , about himself . " She Stoops to " " Conquer " is known to have been based upon a highly characteristic youthful ...
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