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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... wrote with so much perspicuity , vivacity , and grace , should have been , whenever he took a part in conversa- tion , an empty , noisy , blundering , rattle . But on this point the evidence is overwhelming . So extraordinary was the ...
... wrote with so much perspicuity , vivacity , and grace , should have been , whenever he took a part in conversa- tion , an empty , noisy , blundering , rattle . But on this point the evidence is overwhelming . So extraordinary was the ...
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... wrote like an angel , but talked like poor Poll . As a rejoinder Goldsmith wrote ' Retaliation ' ; and though he never lived to complete it , parts of it were handed round in manuscript , and all there is of it was published after ...
... wrote like an angel , but talked like poor Poll . As a rejoinder Goldsmith wrote ' Retaliation ' ; and though he never lived to complete it , parts of it were handed round in manuscript , and all there is of it was published after ...
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... wrote a History of the Popes ( 1748-66 ) , and William Lauder , who in 1750 brought out his Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost . This latter work abounded in shameless forgeries , but it deceived ...
... wrote a History of the Popes ( 1748-66 ) , and William Lauder , who in 1750 brought out his Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost . This latter work abounded in shameless forgeries , but it deceived ...
Contents
EDITORS INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MACAULAYS LIFE OF GOLDSMITH | 20 |
THACKERAYS GOLDSMITH | 38 |
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