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 xxvi
... theatres , and the politics , of this fragment of the eighteenth century , still the object has strictly been to show in more vivid lights from each , the central figure of Goldsmith himself , not exaggerated , not unduly exalted , but ...
... theatres , and the politics , of this fragment of the eighteenth century , still the object has strictly been to show in more vivid lights from each , the central figure of Goldsmith himself , not exaggerated , not unduly exalted , but ...
Page xxxi
... theatre is one of the very few houses in the neighbourhood that does not contribute " to increase the number of thieves . " Post . Let . 194 . 66 P. 298-300 . I here give , from the Newbery MSS . in the possession of Mr. Murray of ...
... theatre is one of the very few houses in the neighbourhood that does not contribute " to increase the number of thieves . " Post . Let . 194 . 66 P. 298-300 . I here give , from the Newbery MSS . in the possession of Mr. Murray of ...
Page xl
... theatre Fellow - students The table in a roar Helps himself by teaching Letters to Bryanton and Uncle Contarine A trip to the Highlands Et . 25. Money wasted , Burke and Gold- smith Ghosts of tailors ' bills " Silver loops and garment ...
... theatre Fellow - students The table in a roar Helps himself by teaching Letters to Bryanton and Uncle Contarine A trip to the Highlands Et . 25. Money wasted , Burke and Gold- smith Ghosts of tailors ' bills " Silver loops and garment ...
Page xliii
... theatre 231 Garrick and Ralph 232 Authors and managers 233 Unpublished letter by Mr. Ralph 234 A comic or a tragic Lilliput ? 235 66 Garrick's management CHAPTER IV . 1760 . THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD . " " 236 Injustice to players and ...
... theatre 231 Garrick and Ralph 232 Authors and managers 233 Unpublished letter by Mr. Ralph 234 A comic or a tragic Lilliput ? 235 66 Garrick's management CHAPTER IV . 1760 . THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD . " " 236 Injustice to players and ...
Page 49
... theatre ; when the real fact was , as he afterwards confessed in speaking of the secret joy with which he heard them all decline the challenge , that had it been accepted , and had he proved the loser , he must have pledged a part of ...
... theatre ; when the real fact was , as he afterwards confessed in speaking of the secret joy with which he heard them all decline the challenge , that had it been accepted , and had he proved the loser , he must have pledged a part 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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