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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... 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 the study may be carried on ; it ...
... 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 the study may be carried on ; it ...
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... criticisms upon it , which came out soon after of all kinds of writings that goes off best at present ; and I generally fasten a criticism upon every selling book that is published . : : ' I once had an author who never left the least ...
... criticisms upon it , which came out soon after of all kinds of writings that goes off best at present ; and I generally fasten a criticism upon every selling book that is published . : : ' I once had an author who never left the least ...
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... criticism ; particularly such as profess to disregard its laws ? ' There is no work whatsoever but he can criticize , ' replied the bookseller ; ' even though you wrote in Chinese he would have a pluck at you . Suppose you should take ...
... criticism ; particularly such as profess to disregard its laws ? ' There is no work whatsoever but he can criticize , ' replied the bookseller ; ' even though you wrote in Chinese he would have a pluck at you . Suppose you should take ...
Contents
EDITORS INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MACAULAYS LIFE OF GOLDSMITH | 20 |
THACKERAYS GOLDSMITH | 38 |
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