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 45
... pleasure : 2 he learned his way early to the pawnbroker's shop . He wrote ballads , they say , for the street - singers , who paid him a crown for a poem : and his pleasure was to steal out at night and hear his verses sung . He was ...
... pleasure : 2 he learned his way early to the pawnbroker's shop . He wrote ballads , they say , for the street - singers , who paid him a crown for a poem : and his pleasure was to steal out at night and hear his verses sung . He was ...
Page 68
... pleasures are but few ; For every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest . Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies That first excites desire , and then supplies ; 190 200 210 Unknown to them ...
... pleasures are but few ; For every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest . Whence from such lands each pleasing science flies That first excites desire , and then supplies ; 190 200 210 Unknown to them ...
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... pleasure past , 370 Hung round their bowers , and fondly look'd their last , And took a long farewell , and wish'd in vain , For seats like these beyond the western main ; And shuddering still to face the distant deep , Return'd and ...
... pleasure past , 370 Hung round their bowers , and fondly look'd their last , And took a long farewell , and wish'd in vain , For seats like these beyond the western main ; And shuddering still to face the distant deep , Return'd and ...
Contents
EDITORS INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MACAULAYS LIFE OF GOLDSMITH | 20 |
THACKERAYS GOLDSMITH | 38 |
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