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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... returned from the temple of fame , to which he had been carrying 30 Addison , Swift , Pope , Steele , Congreve , and Colley Cibber ; that they made but indifferent company by the way ; and that he once or twice was going to empty his ...
... returned from the temple of fame , to which he had been carrying 30 Addison , Swift , Pope , Steele , Congreve , and Colley Cibber ; that they made but indifferent company by the way ; and that he once or twice was going to empty his ...
Page 178
... returned to England in 1760 after the battle of Plassey with 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 ...
... returned to England in 1760 after the battle of Plassey with 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 ...
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... returned to his farm . 17. man wants but little , & c .: Goldsmith used this sentence five years later in'Edwin and Angelina ' : Man wants but little here below , Nor wants that little long . But the sentence as it stands here was taken ...
... returned to his farm . 17. man wants but little , & c .: Goldsmith used this sentence five years later in'Edwin and Angelina ' : Man wants but little here below , Nor wants that little long . But the sentence as it stands here was taken ...
Contents
EDITORS INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MACAULAYS LIFE OF GOLDSMITH | 20 |
THACKERAYS GOLDSMITH | 38 |
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