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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Page vii
... hand , whom the calm virtue of Addison irritates into injustice , finds in Goldsmith a subject made to his hand . Saints stimulate him to become devil's advocate , but sinners - whose sins have no taint of meanness or cruelty - can ...
... hand , whom the calm virtue of Addison irritates into injustice , finds in Goldsmith a subject made to his hand . Saints stimulate him to become devil's advocate , but sinners - whose sins have no taint of meanness or cruelty - can ...
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... hand is seen , And Desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain , And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain . No more thy glassy brook reflects the day , But , choked with sedges , works its weedy way ...
... hand is seen , And Desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain , And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain . No more thy glassy brook reflects the day , But , choked with sedges , works its weedy way ...
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... hand , folded up in the form of a letter from myself . He just glanced at the superscription , and not 10 knowing the hand , consigned it to his valet - de - chambre ; this respectable personage treated it as his master , and put it ...
... hand , folded up in the form of a letter from myself . He just glanced at the superscription , and not 10 knowing the hand , consigned it to his valet - de - chambre ; this respectable personage treated it as his master , and put it ...
Contents
EDITORS INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MACAULAYS LIFE OF GOLDSMITH | 20 |
THACKERAYS GOLDSMITH | 38 |
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