The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Life of Goldsmith. Vicar of Wakefield. Essays, LettersG. Bell and sons, 1908 |
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... letter , dated September 26 , 1753 , 1 and addressed to an Irish gentleman , Mr. Robert Brianton , he gives a very humorous description of Edinburgh society , as it existed at that period ; but we may be permitted to suspect that the ...
... letter , dated September 26 , 1753 , 1 and addressed to an Irish gentleman , Mr. Robert Brianton , he gives a very humorous description of Edinburgh society , as it existed at that period ; but we may be permitted to suspect that the ...
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... Letter to the Rev. Mr. Contarine . The vessel in which he had engaged his passage , was obliged by stress of weather to put into Newcastle , where Goldsmith , and some of his fellow passengers , ( Scottish Jacobites , ) were put under ...
... Letter to the Rev. Mr. Contarine . The vessel in which he had engaged his passage , was obliged by stress of weather to put into Newcastle , where Goldsmith , and some of his fellow passengers , ( Scottish Jacobites , ) were put under ...
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... Letter to his brother - in - law , Hodson , Dec. 27 , 1757 . 8 Dr. Ellis . " 994 Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning , ' chap . vi . an undoubted fact , that in this very manner Goldsmith 12 [ 1755 THE LIFE OF OLIVER ...
... Letter to his brother - in - law , Hodson , Dec. 27 , 1757 . 8 Dr. Ellis . " 994 Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning , ' chap . vi . an undoubted fact , that in this very manner Goldsmith 12 [ 1755 THE LIFE OF OLIVER ...
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... Letters . 2 An illness which rendered the good old man imbecile till the day of his death , in 1758 ; see Letter to Mrs. Lauder . - ED . 3 Dr. Campbell in his Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland . ' Dr. Radcliff , a mild and ...
... Letters . 2 An illness which rendered the good old man imbecile till the day of his death , in 1758 ; see Letter to Mrs. Lauder . - ED . 3 Dr. Campbell in his Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland . ' Dr. Radcliff , a mild and ...
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... Letter to Mr. Hodson , his brother - in - law : see letter " [ Nov. 1758 ] " in the Letters , at the end of this volume . - ED . 3 Dr Percy , ' Life , ' p . 60 . his earliest publication in book form also occurs in this I. с 1758 ] 17 ...
... Letter to Mr. Hodson , his brother - in - law : see letter " [ Nov. 1758 ] " in the Letters , at the end of this volume . - ED . 3 Dr Percy , ' Life , ' p . 60 . his earliest publication in book form also occurs in this I. с 1758 ] 17 ...
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