Oliver Goldsmith: A BiographyG.P. Putnam and Son, 1867 - 382 pages |
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... Boswell . - Dinner of Davies . - Anecdotes of Johnson and Gold- smith , • 139 CHAPTER XIV . Hogarth a visitor at Islington - his character . - Street studies . - Sympathics between authors and painters . - Sir Joshua Reynolds his ...
... Boswell . - Dinner of Davies . - Anecdotes of Johnson and Gold- smith , • 139 CHAPTER XIV . Hogarth a visitor at Islington - his character . - Street studies . - Sympathics between authors and painters . - Sir Joshua Reynolds his ...
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... Boswell's subserviency , ⚫ 327 CHAPTER XL . Changes in the Literary Club . - Johnson's objection to Garrick - Election of Boswell , · 337 CHAPTER XLI . - Dinner at Dilly's . Conversations on natural history . - Intermeddling o . Boswell ...
... Boswell's subserviency , ⚫ 327 CHAPTER XL . Changes in the Literary Club . - Johnson's objection to Garrick - Election of Boswell , · 337 CHAPTER XLI . - Dinner at Dilly's . Conversations on natural history . - Intermeddling o . Boswell ...
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... Boswell . - Dinner of Davies . - Anecdotes of Johnson and Gold- smith . NOTWITHSTANDING his growing success , Goldsmith continued to consider literature a mere make - shift , and his vagrant imagina- tion teemed with schemes and plans ...
... Boswell . - Dinner of Davies . - Anecdotes of Johnson and Gold- smith . NOTWITHSTANDING his growing success , Goldsmith continued to consider literature a mere make - shift , and his vagrant imagina- tion teemed with schemes and plans ...
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... had arranged itself in his head from the studies of the morning . In this way he took a more general view of the subject , and wrote in a more free and JAMES BOSWELL . 143 fluent style than if he had 142 OLIVER GOLDSMITH .
... had arranged itself in his head from the studies of the morning . In this way he took a more general view of the subject , and wrote in a more free and JAMES BOSWELL . 143 fluent style than if he had 142 OLIVER GOLDSMITH .
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... Boswell whose literary gossipings were destined to have a dele- terious effect upon his reputation . Boswell was at that time a young man , light , buoyant , pushing , and presumptuous . He had a morbid passion for mingling in the ...
... Boswell whose literary gossipings were destined to have a dele- terious effect upon his reputation . Boswell was at that time a young man , light , buoyant , pushing , and presumptuous . He had a morbid passion for mingling in the ...
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