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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... called George's , " and some curious notices of it may be seen in Cunningham's Hand - Book of London , 197 . P. 150-153 . I have an impression that this letter was printed before , but the authority from which it is here taken is Prior ...
... called George's , " and some curious notices of it may be seen in Cunningham's Hand - Book of London , 197 . P. 150-153 . I have an impression that this letter was printed before , but the authority from which it is here taken is Prior ...
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... called " effort " in conversation ; and adds that the encomiums she had so often heard him pronounce on the manner of Topham Beauclerc in society , con- stantly ended in that peculiar phrase , that " it was without effort . ” P. 351-352 ...
... called " effort " in conversation ; and adds that the encomiums she had so often heard him pronounce on the manner of Topham Beauclerc in society , con- stantly ended in that peculiar phrase , that " it was without effort . ” P. 351-352 ...
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... called . Of O'Brien it is said in Taylor's Records of his life ( i . 177 ) " He was , I have heard , a fencing " master in Dublin , or the son of a fencing master , but with manners so easy and so " sprightly , that he was admitted into ...
... called . Of O'Brien it is said in Taylor's Records of his life ( i . 177 ) " He was , I have heard , a fencing " master in Dublin , or the son of a fencing master , but with manners so easy and so " sprightly , that he was admitted into ...
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... called forth this singular remark from Southey , then in the " hot youth " of his republicanism . " Should there ever again be a king " in France ( which God forbid ! ) it will be the elder of these young men . He will be happier and a ...
... called forth this singular remark from Southey , then in the " hot youth " of his republicanism . " Should there ever again be a king " in France ( which God forbid ! ) it will be the elder of these young men . He will be happier and a ...
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... called worldly success , then , was not attained by Goldsmith , it may be that the way to happiness was yet not missed altogether . The sincere and sad biographer of Savage might have profited by the example . His own benefit he had not ...
... called worldly success , then , was not attained by Goldsmith , it may be that the way to happiness was yet not missed altogether . The sincere and sad biographer of Savage might have profited by the example . His own benefit he had not ...
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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