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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... Johnson and Boswell in their visit to Bristol , in Boswell , vi . 171-173 ... Samuel Pullin ( Dublin ) , 1750 ; Anon , Eton 1769 ; Anon , Oxford 1778 ... Johnson , " says Mrs. Piozzi , " used to say that " the size of a man's ...
... Johnson and Boswell in their visit to Bristol , in Boswell , vi . 171-173 ... Samuel Pullin ( Dublin ) , 1750 ; Anon , Eton 1769 ; Anon , Oxford 1778 ... Johnson , " says Mrs. Piozzi , " used to say that " the size of a man's ...
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... Samuel Johnson 215 Mr. Pitt and other M. P's 256 A walk round Grosvenor - square 215 Peter continues obdurate 257 The knell of patronage 216 Increasing successes 258 Encouragement and example 217 Thirty pounds a year Peter's terrible ...
... Samuel Johnson 215 Mr. Pitt and other M. P's 256 A walk round Grosvenor - square 215 Peter continues obdurate 257 The knell of patronage 216 Increasing successes 258 Encouragement and example 217 Thirty pounds a year Peter's terrible ...
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... Samuel Johnson at Oxford , he avoided lectures when he could , and was a lounger at the college gate . * The popular picture of him in these Dublin University days , is little more than of a slow , hesitating , somewhat hollow voice ...
... Samuel Johnson at Oxford , he avoided lectures when he could , and was a lounger at the college gate . * The popular picture of him in these Dublin University days , is little more than of a slow , hesitating , somewhat hollow voice ...
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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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