Oliver Goldsmith: a BiographyG. Routledge, 1850 - 213 pages |
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... play " She Stoops to Conquer " - Foote's primitive puppetshow , " Piety on Pattens " First performance of the comedy - Agitation of the author Success Colman squibbed out of town . - — 285 CHAPTER XXXVIII . A newspaper attack - The ...
... play " She Stoops to Conquer " - Foote's primitive puppetshow , " Piety on Pattens " First performance of the comedy - Agitation of the author Success Colman squibbed out of town . - — 285 CHAPTER XXXVIII . A newspaper attack - The ...
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... played on the violin . In the course of the evening Oliver undertook a hornpipe . His short and clumsy figure , and ... playing . " The repartee was thought wonderful for a boy of nine years old , and Oliver became forthwith the wit and ...
... played on the violin . In the course of the evening Oliver undertook a hornpipe . His short and clumsy figure , and ... playing . " The repartee was thought wonderful for a boy of nine years old , and Oliver became forthwith the wit and ...
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... playing , and he was foremost in all mischievous pranks . Many years afterward , an old man , Jack Fitzimmons , one of the directors of the sports and keeper of the ball - court at Ballymahon , used to boast of having been schoolmate of ...
... playing , and he was foremost in all mischievous pranks . Many years afterward , an old man , Jack Fitzimmons , one of the directors of the sports and keeper of the ball - court at Ballymahon , used to boast of having been schoolmate of ...
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... play the man , and to spend his money in independent traveller's style .. Accordingly , instead of pushing directly for home , he halted for the night at the little town of Ardagh , and , accosting the first person he met , inquired ...
... play the man , and to spend his money in independent traveller's style .. Accordingly , instead of pushing directly for home , he halted for the night at the little town of Ardagh , and , accosting the first person he met , inquired ...
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... plays everything , in short , that administered to the imagination . Sometimes he strolled along the banks of the river Inny ; where in after years , when he had be- come famous , his favourite seats and haunts used to be pointed out ...
... plays everything , in short , that administered to the imagination . Sometimes he strolled along the banks of the river Inny ; where in after years , when he had be- come famous , his favourite seats and haunts used to be pointed out ...
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