Oliver GoldsmithH. Holt, 1935 - 326 pages |
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Page 35
... kind to look back on , and his “ Enquiry into the State of Polite Learning " is severe on the use to which universities in Great Britain apply their " magnificent endowments . ” These " at best more frequently enrich the prudent than ...
... kind to look back on , and his “ Enquiry into the State of Polite Learning " is severe on the use to which universities in Great Britain apply their " magnificent endowments . ” These " at best more frequently enrich the prudent than ...
Page 43
... kind , the latter being exactly like the former . A buck hare is known by its choosing to run upon hard highways , feeding further from the woodsides and mak- ing its doublings of a greater compass than the female . The male , having ...
... kind , the latter being exactly like the former . A buck hare is known by its choosing to run upon hard highways , feeding further from the woodsides and mak- ing its doublings of a greater compass than the female . The male , having ...
Page 305
... kind . It is no doubt a minor kind . Boswell said once , with the usual touch of conde- scension , that he " liked to hear honest Goldsmith rattle away . " Well , here he is , to all appearance rattling away , in a meter that no artist ...
... kind . It is no doubt a minor kind . Boswell said once , with the usual touch of conde- scension , that he " liked to hear honest Goldsmith rattle away . " Well , here he is , to all appearance rattling away , in a meter that no artist ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE SCHOOLBOY I | 1 |
THE COLLEGIAN | 20 |
IN SEARCH OF A PROFESSION | 40 |
Copyright | |
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