Oliver GoldsmithH. Jenkins, 1951 - 286 pages |
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Page 153
... short - lived , The Present State of Learning had attracted a good deal of attention , 1 and his Citizen of the World letters were keeping his name before the intelli- gentsia in The Public Ledger . He had , in short , become a writer ...
... short - lived , The Present State of Learning had attracted a good deal of attention , 1 and his Citizen of the World letters were keeping his name before the intelli- gentsia in The Public Ledger . He had , in short , become a writer ...
Page 176
... short , plump and vivacious . She wrote Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson during the last twenty years of his life , Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson , LL.D. , several books of travel , and a quantity of light verse . On ...
... short , plump and vivacious . She wrote Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson during the last twenty years of his life , Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson , LL.D. , several books of travel , and a quantity of light verse . On ...
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... short , Goldsmith himself , " seen in the flatter- ing mirror of his wishful thinking , " comments Campbell . • A friend named William Cooke , nicknamed " Conversation Cooke " from the title of a poem he wrote , has left several small ...
... short , Goldsmith himself , " seen in the flatter- ing mirror of his wishful thinking , " comments Campbell . • A friend named William Cooke , nicknamed " Conversation Cooke " from the title of a poem he wrote , has left several small ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
IRELAND | 15 |
SCOTLAND THE MEDICAL STUDENT | 51 |
Copyright | |
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