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 xii
... admiration more harassing than any spite that vexed poor Goldsmith while he lived , from a clumsy and incessant exaltation far worse than Hawkins's absurd contempt or the amusing slights of Boswell . In the course of this attempt it ...
... admiration more harassing than any spite that vexed poor Goldsmith while he lived , from a clumsy and incessant exaltation far worse than Hawkins's absurd contempt or the amusing slights of Boswell . In the course of this attempt it ...
Page xxxii
... admirable saying of Johnson's at the end of the last note , these lines from Swift's Journal to Stella . " There is something of " farce in all these mournings , let them be ever so serious . People will pretend to " grieve more than ...
... admirable saying of Johnson's at the end of the last note , these lines from Swift's Journal to Stella . " There is something of " farce in all these mournings , let them be ever so serious . People will pretend to " grieve more than ...
Page xxxv
... who acknowledged himself to be envious . In Johnson's presence , & c . He even envied the dead ; he could not bear that Shakspeare 66 66 66 " should be so much admired as he c 2 ADDITIONAL NOTES AND CORRECTIONS . ( VOL . II . ) XXXV.
... who acknowledged himself to be envious . In Johnson's presence , & c . He even envied the dead ; he could not bear that Shakspeare 66 66 66 " should be so much admired as he c 2 ADDITIONAL NOTES AND CORRECTIONS . ( VOL . II . ) XXXV.
Page xxxvi
John Forster. 66 66 " should be so much admired as he is . There might , however , be something like ' magnanimity in ... Admirable in his comment upon this , and full of wisdom as well as beauty . " Détestable hypocrisie ! Moi aussi je ...
John Forster. 66 66 " should be so much admired as he is . There might , however , be something like ' magnanimity in ... Admirable in his comment upon this , and full of wisdom as well as beauty . " Détestable hypocrisie ! Moi aussi je ...
Page xxxvii
... admirable article on Gray in the Quarterly Review ( xciv . 1-4 ) . P. 113. Remove the marginal date from the opening of the first paragraph to that of the second , and substitute for the former " 1767 , Æt . 39. ” P. 120. At close of ...
... admirable article on Gray in the Quarterly Review ( xciv . 1-4 ) . P. 113. Remove the marginal date from the opening of the first paragraph to that of the second , and substitute for the former " 1767 , Æt . 39. ” P. 120. At close of ...
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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