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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... essays , both wrote a History of England , both were noted masters of style in an age of great writers . It is but natural to look for some affinity between them , some bond of sympathy which should enable the later of the two to ...
... essays , both wrote a History of England , both were noted masters of style in an age of great writers . It is but natural to look for some affinity between them , some bond of sympathy which should enable the later of the two to ...
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... essays contain much of permanent critical value . Scott's essay is somewhat perfunctory : he himself was unluckily compelled to do much of the literary hack work which he deplores in Goldsmith's case . Fortunately we have not to regret ...
... essays contain much of permanent critical value . Scott's essay is somewhat perfunctory : he himself was unluckily compelled to do much of the literary hack work which he deplores in Goldsmith's case . Fortunately we have not to regret ...
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... essays for various periodical publications , and after- 10 wards collected them into one volume , finding that they were unceremoniously appropriated by his contemporaries . In the preface he compares himself to the fat man in a famine ...
... essays for various periodical publications , and after- 10 wards collected them into one volume , finding that they were unceremoniously appropriated by his contemporaries . In the preface he compares himself to the fat man in a famine ...
Contents
EDITORS INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MACAULAYS LIFE OF GOLDSMITH | 20 |
THACKERAYS GOLDSMITH | 38 |
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