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" Temple, he showed me the beginning of his Animated Nature; it was with a sigh, such as genius draws when hard necessity diverts it from its bent to drudge for bread, and talk of birds and beasts and creeping things, which Pidcock's showman would have... "
The United States Democratic Review - Page 396
1856
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...drudge for bread, and talk of birds, and beasts, and creeping things, which Pidcock's showman would have little practice as a physician, and a very little...reputation as a poet, I make a shift to live. Nothing publisher» hate poetry, and Patemoster-row is not Parnassus. Even the mighty Dr. НШ, who was not...
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Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Novelists, and Other Distinguished ..., Volume 3

Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...drudge for bread, and talk of birds and beasts and creeping things, which Pidcock's showman would have done as well. Poor fellow, he hardly knew an ass from...saw it on the table. But publishers hate poetry, and PaternosterRow is not Parnassus. Even the mighty Dr Hill, who was not a very delicate feeder, could...
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical memoirs of eminent ...

Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...drudge for bread, and talk of birds and beasts and creeping things, which Pidcock's showman would have done as well. Poor fellow, he hardly knew an ass from...mule, nor a turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on fhc table. But publishers hate poetry, and PuternosterKow is not Parnassus. Even the mighty Dr Hill,...
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The Young Man's Book of Elegant Prose: Comprising Selections from the ...

Literature - 1836 - 332 pages
...drudge for bread, and talk of birds and beasts and creeping things, which Pidcock's showman would have done as well. Poor fellow, he hardly knew an ass from...from a g-oose, but when he saw it on the table. But pub- Ushers hate poetry, and Paternoster-row is not Parnassus. Even the mighty Doctor Hill, who was...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...beasts, and creeping things, which Pidcock's showman would have done as well. Poor fellow, he hardly {new ed with my brother, because he happens to ask our lather for favours in t late poetry, and Patcmostcr-row is not Parnassus. Sven the mighty Dr. Hill, who was not a very delicate...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...drudge for bread, and talk of birds and beasts and creeping things, which Pidcock's showmen would have done as well. Poor fellow, he hardly knew an ass from...the mighty Doctor Hill, who was not a very delicate reader, could not make a dinner out of the press till by a happy transformation into Hannah Glass he...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...drudge for bread, and talk of birds and beasts and creeping things, which Pidcock's showmen would have done as well. Poor fellow, he hardly knew an ass from...goose, but when he saw it on the table. But publishers hale poetry, and Paternoster Row is not Parnassus. Even the mighty Doctor Hill, who was not a very...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...beasts, ami cnvping tilings, which Pidcock's showman would have done as well. Poor fellow, he hardly know his brother had spoken he could do ; and thus he at once gained his cause. To teach men to bo orato ]*x'trv, and PaU'rnostcr-row is not Parnassus. Even the mighty Dr. Hill, who was not a very delicate...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...drudge for bread, and talk of birds, and beasts, and creeping things, which Pidcock's showman would have done as well. Poor fellow, he hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor a turkey from a goose, iut when he saw it on the table. But publishers iate poetry, and Paternoster-row is not Parnassus....
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 622 pages
...drudge for bread, and talk of birds and beasts and creeping things, which Pidcock's showman would have done as well. Poor fellow, he hardly knew an ass from...turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on the table." — pp. 257 —259. " I have heard Dr. Johnson relate with infinite humour the circumstance of his...
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