Oliver GoldsmithH. Holt, 1935 - 326 pages |
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Page 43
... passage devoted to the hare shows close familiarity , as even a few sentences of it will show : The first doubling a hare makes is generally a key to all its future attempts of that kind , the latter being exactly like the former . A ...
... passage devoted to the hare shows close familiarity , as even a few sentences of it will show : The first doubling a hare makes is generally a key to all its future attempts of that kind , the latter being exactly like the former . A ...
Page 140
... passage too in his review of Young " On Original Com- position " : Of genius there are two species , an earlier and a later ; or , call them infantine and adult . An adult genius comes out of nature's hand , as Pallas out of Jove's head ...
... passage too in his review of Young " On Original Com- position " : Of genius there are two species , an earlier and a later ; or , call them infantine and adult . An adult genius comes out of nature's hand , as Pallas out of Jove's head ...
Page 149
Stephen Lucius Gwynn. This passage makes the first link that we know of be- tween Goldsmith and the Great Cham who was a ... passage about an usher's hard lot ; but there is much else that modern opinion agrees with . If the schools , for ...
Stephen Lucius Gwynn. This passage makes the first link that we know of be- tween Goldsmith and the Great Cham who was a ... passage about an usher's hard lot ; but there is much else that modern opinion agrees with . If the schools , for ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE SCHOOLBOY I | 1 |
THE COLLEGIAN | 20 |
IN SEARCH OF A PROFESSION | 40 |
Copyright | |
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