Essays on Goldsmith by Scott, Macaulay, and Thackeray: And Selections from His WritingsOliver Goldsmith, Grace Eleanor Hadow, Charles Bickersteth Wheeler, Walter Scott, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, William Makepeace Thackeray Clarendon Press, 1946 - 200 pages |
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... BOOKSELLER'S VISIT TO THE CHINESE From Lien Chi Altangi to Fum Hoam , First President of the Ceremonial Academy at Pekin , in China As I was yesterday seated at breakfast over a pensive dish of tea , my meditations were interrupted by ...
... BOOKSELLER'S VISIT TO THE CHINESE From Lien Chi Altangi to Fum Hoam , First President of the Ceremonial Academy at Pekin , in China As I was yesterday seated at breakfast over a pensive dish of tea , my meditations were interrupted by ...
Page 139
... bookseller , I only draw out the plans myself ; and though I am very cautious of communicating them to any , yet , as in the end I have a favour to ask , you shall see a few of them . Here , Sir , here they are , diamonds of the first ...
... bookseller , I only draw out the plans myself ; and though I am very cautious of communicating them to any , yet , as in the end I have a favour to ask , you shall see a few of them . Here , Sir , here they are , diamonds of the first ...
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... bookseller's hack : a needy author engaged by a bookseller -we should now say , publisher to write to order . The name of his employer was Griffiths . The most ' galling ' incident in his new post was the severe editing to which ...
... bookseller's hack : a needy author engaged by a bookseller -we should now say , publisher to write to order . The name of his employer was Griffiths . The most ' galling ' incident in his new post was the severe editing to which ...
Contents
EDITORS INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MACAULAYS LIFE OF GOLDSMITH | 20 |
THACKERAYS GOLDSMITH | 38 |
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