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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... poem is fully equal , perhaps superior to the Traveller ; and it is generally preferred to the Traveller by that ... poem , considered merely as a poem , is not necessarily the worse on that account . The finest poem in the Latin ...
... poem is fully equal , perhaps superior to the Traveller ; and it is generally preferred to the Traveller by that ... poem , considered merely as a poem , is not necessarily the worse on that account . The finest poem in the Latin ...
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... poem in the Latin language : Lucretius's poem De Rerum Natura , a poetical version of the teaching of Epicurus . Macaulay's judgement of the poem will be endorsed by many who can see nothing ' silly ' or ' mean ' in the doctrine . PAGE ...
... poem in the Latin language : Lucretius's poem De Rerum Natura , a poetical version of the teaching of Epicurus . Macaulay's judgement of the poem will be endorsed by many who can see nothing ' silly ' or ' mean ' in the doctrine . PAGE ...
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... poem appeared in December 1764 Goldsmith prefixed a dedication to his elder brother Henry , in which he says , as a part of this poem was formerly written to you from Switzerland [ i . e . in 1755 ] , the whole can now with propriety be ...
... poem appeared in December 1764 Goldsmith prefixed a dedication to his elder brother Henry , in which he says , as a part of this poem was formerly written to you from Switzerland [ i . e . in 1755 ] , the whole can now with propriety be ...
Contents
EDITORS INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MACAULAYS LIFE OF GOLDSMITH | 20 |
THACKERAYS GOLDSMITH | 38 |
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