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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... fortune leads to traverse realms alone , And find no spot of all the world my own . I spoke in a former lecture of that high courage which enabled Fielding , in spite of disease , remorse , and poverty , always to retain a cheerful ...
... fortune leads to traverse realms alone , And find no spot of all the world my own . I spoke in a former lecture of that high courage which enabled Fielding , in spite of disease , remorse , and poverty , always to retain a cheerful ...
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... fortune : and for those who have no merit , it is but fit that such should remain in merited obscurity . He may now refuse an invitation to dinner , without fearing to incur his patron's displeasure , or to starve by remaining at home ...
... fortune : and for those who have no merit , it is but fit that such should remain in merited obscurity . He may now refuse an invitation to dinner , without fearing to incur his patron's displeasure , or to starve by remaining at home ...
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... fortune of £ 40,000 per annum . He was raised to the peerage two years later . 19. Sir Lawrence Dundas heaped up an immense fortune by acting as contractor to the English army during the early part of the Seven Years ' War . 28. a ...
... fortune of £ 40,000 per annum . He was raised to the peerage two years later . 19. Sir Lawrence Dundas heaped up an immense fortune by acting as contractor to the English army during the early part of the Seven Years ' War . 28. a ...
Contents
EDITORS INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MACAULAYS LIFE OF GOLDSMITH | 20 |
THACKERAYS GOLDSMITH | 38 |
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