Oliver GoldsmithH. Jenkins, 1951 - 286 pages |
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Page 36
... complete and hopeless absence of any money sense would alone have involved him in continual embarrassment . To the end of his life whatever sum he happened to have in his pocket remained there only long enough to be dissipated on some ...
... complete and hopeless absence of any money sense would alone have involved him in continual embarrassment . To the end of his life whatever sum he happened to have in his pocket remained there only long enough to be dissipated on some ...
Page 219
... complete agreement . " It would give the Club an agreeable variety , " he said ; " there can now be nothing new among the members , for they have travelled over each other's minds . " To which the irritated Johnson retorted darkly and ...
... complete agreement . " It would give the Club an agreeable variety , " he said ; " there can now be nothing new among the members , for they have travelled over each other's minds . " To which the irritated Johnson retorted darkly and ...
Page 220
... complete approval , and in after years snubbed Boswell for protesting against Goldsmith being included among the first - class his- torians . He went further , and seized the opportunity to elaborate his praise of Goldsmith into a ...
... complete approval , and in after years snubbed Boswell for protesting against Goldsmith being included among the first - class his- torians . He went further , and seized the opportunity to elaborate his praise of Goldsmith into a ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
IRELAND | 15 |
SCOTLAND THE MEDICAL STUDENT | 51 |
Copyright | |
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