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 viii
... never could have written his , I had contributed to them many new anecdotes and some original letters , had subjected them to an entirely new examination and arrangement , and had done my best to transform an indiscriminate and dead ...
... never could have written his , I had contributed to them many new anecdotes and some original letters , had subjected them to an entirely new examination and arrangement , and had done my best to transform an indiscriminate and dead ...
Page xi
... never once refers . He preserves almost as close a silence in respect to the Percy Memoir itself , which , though remaining still by far the fullest and most authentic repository of " original " information about Goldsmith , he ...
... never once refers . He preserves almost as close a silence in respect to the Percy Memoir itself , which , though remaining still by far the fullest and most authentic repository of " original " information about Goldsmith , he ...
Page xiii
... never occurred to me to question Mr. Wash- ington Irving's perfect right to avail himself to the utter- most of the present work , though he did so within as many weeks as I had waited years before encroaching on Mr. Prior's . But if ...
... never occurred to me to question Mr. Wash- ington Irving's perfect right to avail himself to the utter- most of the present work , though he did so within as many weeks as I had waited years before encroaching on Mr. Prior's . But if ...
Page xxiv
... never referred to the place from which he draws them , except in the few instances where a really original letter happens to have fallen in his way . Whether it be at p . 390 , where a letter of Goldsmith's to Cradock ( in Memoirs , i ...
... never referred to the place from which he draws them , except in the few instances where a really original letter happens to have fallen in his way . Whether it be at p . 390 , where a letter of Goldsmith's to Cradock ( in Memoirs , i ...
Page xxvii
... never found till the latter end of 66 summer ; and I have frequently , when a boy , discovered their retreats , and pursued " them at that season . " iii . 240. A curious account follows of his personal expe- rience as to their being ...
... never found till the latter end of 66 summer ; and I have frequently , when a boy , discovered their retreats , and pursued " them at that season . " iii . 240. A curious account follows of his personal expe- rience as to their being ...
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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