The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 4A. and W. Galignani and Jules Didot, 1825 |
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... ESSAYS . 227 233 242 Preface to the Essays ... I. Description of various Clubs .. II . Specimen of a Magazine in Miniature ... III . Asem , an eastern Tale ; or , Vindication of the Wisdom of Pro- 249 253 263 vidence in the Moral ...
... ESSAYS . 227 233 242 Preface to the Essays ... I. Description of various Clubs .. II . Specimen of a Magazine in Miniature ... III . Asem , an eastern Tale ; or , Vindication of the Wisdom of Pro- 249 253 263 vidence in the Moral ...
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... Essay on Homer . Nothing can be more glorious to that great author than that the same hand that raised his best statue , and decked it with its old laurels , should also hang up the scarecrow of his miserable critic , and gibbet up the ...
... Essay on Homer . Nothing can be more glorious to that great author than that the same hand that raised his best statue , and decked it with its old laurels , should also hang up the scarecrow of his miserable critic , and gibbet up the ...
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... essays and moral discourses . But the only excuse that I will allow , is your attention to the Life of Zoilus . The frogs already seem to croak for their transportation to England , and are sensible how much that Doctor is cursed and ...
... essays and moral discourses . But the only excuse that I will allow , is your attention to the Life of Zoilus . The frogs already seem to croak for their transportation to England , and are sensible how much that Doctor is cursed and ...
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... Essay on Polite Literature . The propriety , however , both of the simile , and of the position it endeavours to illustrate , is ably examined in a pe- riodical work , entitled the Philanthrope , published in London in the year 1797 ...
... Essay on Polite Literature . The propriety , however , both of the simile , and of the position it endeavours to illustrate , is ably examined in a pe- riodical work , entitled the Philanthrope , published in London in the year 1797 ...
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... essays were peculiarly relished by the public . How- ever , it is the fate of things written to an occasion , seldom to survive that occasion : the Craftsman , though written with great spirit and sharpness , is now almost forgotten ...
... essays were peculiarly relished by the public . How- ever , it is the fate of things written to an occasion , seldom to survive that occasion : the Craftsman , though written with great spirit and sharpness , is now almost forgotten ...
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