Oliver GoldsmithH. Holt, 1935 - 326 pages |
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Page 91
... written mountains , though he was alto- gether ignorant of Arabic , or the language in which they might be supposed to be written . The salary of 300l . per annum , which had been left for the purpose , was the tempta- tion . And a very ...
... written mountains , though he was alto- gether ignorant of Arabic , or the language in which they might be supposed to be written . The salary of 300l . per annum , which had been left for the purpose , was the tempta- tion . And a very ...
Page 185
... written before Johnson came in to advise ? I think so . It is a moral essay . It is in the main very like a versifica- tion of one of Goldsmith's prose essays . We are told by Cooke that his method in writing verse was to set down in ...
... written before Johnson came in to advise ? I think so . It is a moral essay . It is in the main very like a versifica- tion of one of Goldsmith's prose essays . We are told by Cooke that his method in writing verse was to set down in ...
Page 301
... writing poetry down to dancing a hornpipe , the Doctor with great eagerness insisted upon trying his epigrammatic ... written by several of the gentle- men on purpose to provoke the Doctor to an answer , which came forth at last with ...
... writing poetry down to dancing a hornpipe , the Doctor with great eagerness insisted upon trying his epigrammatic ... written by several of the gentle- men on purpose to provoke the Doctor to an answer , which came forth at last with ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE SCHOOLBOY I | 1 |
THE COLLEGIAN | 20 |
IN SEARCH OF A PROFESSION | 40 |
Copyright | |
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