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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... perhaps , is nowhere else equalled . It is sketched , indeed , from common life , and is a strong contrast to the exaggerated and extraordinary characters and incidents which are the resource of those authors , who , like Bayes , make ...
... perhaps , is nowhere else equalled . It is sketched , indeed , from common life , and is a strong contrast to the exaggerated and extraordinary characters and incidents which are the resource of those authors , who , like Bayes , make ...
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... perhaps , in village plenty bless'd , Has wept at tales of innocence distress'd ; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn , Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn : Now lost to all , her friends , her virtue , fled , Near her ...
... perhaps , in village plenty bless'd , Has wept at tales of innocence distress'd ; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn , Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn : Now lost to all , her friends , her virtue , fled , Near her ...
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... perhaps needless to add that the half - guinea was never returned , and that Goldsmith had to redeem his watch for himself some months later . 27. Master Jenkinson : who cheated Dr. Primrose in the Vicar of Wakefield , xiv , by paying ...
... perhaps needless to add that the half - guinea was never returned , and that Goldsmith had to redeem his watch for himself some months later . 27. Master Jenkinson : who cheated Dr. Primrose in the Vicar of Wakefield , xiv , by paying ...
Contents
EDITORS INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MACAULAYS LIFE OF GOLDSMITH | 20 |
THACKERAYS GOLDSMITH | 38 |
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