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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... writing several verses impromptu , but these he would take uncommon pains afterwards to revise , lest they should be 10 found unconnected with his main design . ' The writer of these Memoirs ( Lee Lewes ) called upon the Doctor the ...
... writing several verses impromptu , but these he would take uncommon pains afterwards to revise , lest they should be 10 found unconnected with his main design . ' The writer of these Memoirs ( Lee Lewes ) called upon the Doctor the ...
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... write how you will , he shall show the world you could have written better . Should you , with the most local exactness , stick to the manners and customs of the country from whence you come ; should you confine yourself to the narrow ...
... write how you will , he shall show the world you could have written better . Should you , with the most local exactness , stick to the manners and customs of the country from whence you come ; should you confine yourself to the narrow ...
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... writes this Memoir , who had the honour and the pleasure of being his [ Voltaire's ] acquaintance , remembers to ... writer of the eighteenth century ; histories , plays , poems , novels , philosophical treatises , and attacks on ...
... writes this Memoir , who had the honour and the pleasure of being his [ Voltaire's ] acquaintance , remembers to ... writer of the eighteenth century ; histories , plays , poems , novels , philosophical treatises , and attacks on ...
Contents
EDITORS INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MACAULAYS LIFE OF GOLDSMITH | 20 |
THACKERAYS GOLDSMITH | 38 |
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