Oliver GoldsmithH. Holt, 1935 - 326 pages |
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Page 59
... Ireland — any Irish patriotism . But love of home he had , and home meant Ireland : it was only in Ireland that this home - lover ever had the experience of a home . Yet the wandering instinct that in the Middle Ages drew the vagantes ...
... Ireland — any Irish patriotism . But love of home he had , and home meant Ireland : it was only in Ireland that this home - lover ever had the experience of a home . Yet the wandering instinct that in the Middle Ages drew the vagantes ...
Page 260
... Ireland was always uppermost in his mind . " It was always undermost : it was at the roots of everything . But Ireland for Goldsmith did not mean Ireland , it meant home - home in the quiet country places . He never wanted to write about ...
... Ireland was always uppermost in his mind . " It was always undermost : it was at the roots of everything . But Ireland for Goldsmith did not mean Ireland , it meant home - home in the quiet country places . He never wanted to write about ...
Page 320
... Ireland meet and mingle . Goldsmith was never , like Swift , Ireland's cham- pion ; but - unlike Swift - he never wrote a line that sharp- ened Irish divisions or added to bitterness between England and Ireland . He has therefore been ...
... Ireland meet and mingle . Goldsmith was never , like Swift , Ireland's cham- pion ; but - unlike Swift - he never wrote a line that sharp- ened Irish divisions or added to bitterness between England and Ireland . He has therefore been ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE SCHOOLBOY I | 1 |
THE COLLEGIAN | 20 |
IN SEARCH OF A PROFESSION | 40 |
Copyright | |
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