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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... character apart from art , to make a critic — but it fulfils at least two of the functions of criticism , it fills the reader with a desire to go back and study the original for himself , and it creates a sympathetic atmosphere in which ...
... character apart from art , to make a critic — but it fulfils at least two of the functions of criticism , it fills the reader with a desire to go back and study the original for himself , and it creates a sympathetic atmosphere in which ...
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... character . An ugly and a poor man is society only for himself , and such society the world lets me enjoy in great abundance . Fortune has given you circumstances , and nature a power to look charming in the eyes of the fair . Nor do I ...
... character . An ugly and a poor man is society only for himself , and such society the world lets me enjoy in great abundance . Fortune has given you circumstances , and nature a power to look charming in the eyes of the fair . Nor do I ...
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... characters are designed , make the Vicar of Wakefield one of the most delicious morsels of fictitious composition on which the human mind was ever employed . The principal character , 20 that of the simple pastor himself , with all the ...
... characters are designed , make the Vicar of Wakefield one of the most delicious morsels of fictitious composition on which the human mind was ever employed . The principal character , 20 that of the simple pastor himself , with all the ...
Contents
EDITORS INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MACAULAYS LIFE OF GOLDSMITH | 20 |
THACKERAYS GOLDSMITH | 38 |
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