Oliver GoldsmithH. Holt, 1935 - 326 pages |
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Page 98
... expression , merely for the purpose of intro- ducing a more sounding word with a Latin termination ; the English language is sufficiently copious , without any further addition of new terms ; and the native words seem to me to have far ...
... expression , merely for the purpose of intro- ducing a more sounding word with a Latin termination ; the English language is sufficiently copious , without any further addition of new terms ; and the native words seem to me to have far ...
Page 153
... expression . When he was to be a poet , it was by suffusing with emotion and adorning with exquisite illustration the simple doctrines which were to him philosophy . In one of these papers- " The Sentiments of a Frenchman on the Temper ...
... expression . When he was to be a poet , it was by suffusing with emotion and adorning with exquisite illustration the simple doctrines which were to him philosophy . In one of these papers- " The Sentiments of a Frenchman on the Temper ...
Page 271
... expression . The writer whom Goldsmith is thinking of here is cer- tainly not only Parnell . A later preference of Parnell's " Night Piece on Death " to " all those night pieces and churchyard scenes that have since appeared " makes ...
... expression . The writer whom Goldsmith is thinking of here is cer- tainly not only Parnell . A later preference of Parnell's " Night Piece on Death " to " all those night pieces and churchyard scenes that have since appeared " makes ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE SCHOOLBOY I | 1 |
THE COLLEGIAN | 20 |
IN SEARCH OF A PROFESSION | 40 |
Copyright | |
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