The Life and Times of Oliver GoldsmithWildside Press LLC, 2010 M12 1 - 504 pages John Forster (1812-1876), was an English biographer and critic and a friend of author Charles Dickens. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was an Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield. |
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Page xiv
... Essay only once very slightly and cursorily alluded to ( 102 ) , containing ( 139-149 ) the whole of Dr. Strean's in- formation , and published in 1808 by Mr. Mangin , who not without reason complained , on the appearance of Mr. Prior's ...
... Essay only once very slightly and cursorily alluded to ( 102 ) , containing ( 139-149 ) the whole of Dr. Strean's in- formation , and published in 1808 by Mr. Mangin , who not without reason complained , on the appearance of Mr. Prior's ...
Page xxii
... Essay ( 140-143 ) ; in Mr. Newell's elaborate and highly illustrated quarto edition of the Poetical Works ( 1811 : " with remarks attempting to ascertain chiefly from local observation the " actual scene of the Deserted Village : " 61 ...
... Essay ( 140-143 ) ; in Mr. Newell's elaborate and highly illustrated quarto edition of the Poetical Works ( 1811 : " with remarks attempting to ascertain chiefly from local observation the " actual scene of the Deserted Village : " 61 ...
Page xxx
... Essays , & c . ) , have in every case been cor- rectly attributed to him , is borne out by the opinion of my friend Mr. Cunningham , founded on subsequent and closer examination ; and the third volume of his edition of the Works , now ...
... Essays , & c . ) , have in every case been cor- rectly attributed to him , is borne out by the opinion of my friend Mr. Cunningham , founded on subsequent and closer examination ; and the third volume of his edition of the Works , now ...
Page xxxi
... essay in the second number of the Bee was not inserted till its reprint in 1765 . P. 249. The passage quoted from Cumberland will be found in his Memoirs , i . 80-81 . P. 254. In a note to this page , misled by a note in a recent ...
... essay in the second number of the Bee was not inserted till its reprint in 1765 . P. 249. The passage quoted from Cumberland will be found in his Memoirs , i . 80-81 . P. 254. In a note to this page , misled by a note in a recent ...
Page xxxv
... Essay sur la vie et les ecrits " d'Oliver Goldsmith . Par M. Hennequin . Paris , Brédrip , 1825. " This is very careful and good . " Le Vicaire de Wakefield . Traduit par Charles Nodier . Paris , " Gorselin , 1841. " The notice by ...
... Essay sur la vie et les ecrits " d'Oliver Goldsmith . Par M. Hennequin . Paris , Brédrip , 1825. " This is very careful and good . " Le Vicaire de Wakefield . Traduit par Charles Nodier . Paris , " Gorselin , 1841. " The notice by ...
Contents
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entrance | 59 |
53 | 173 |
Speaking out for the Authors | 191 |
CHAPTER II | 231 |
CHAPTER VIII | 294 |
77 | 298 |
1763 | 321 |
Jacobite adventure at Newcastle 56 | 331 |
A club proposed | 333 |
49 | 78 |
CHAPTER I | 101 |
A strange dispenser of fame | 364 |
CHAPTER II | 388 |
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