The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The CItizen of the world. Polite learning in EuropeG. Bell and sons, 1885 |
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Page 74
... critics eat up critics , and compilers rob from compilations . Confucius observes , that it is the duty of the learned to unite society more closely , and to persuade men to become citizens of the world ; but the authors I refer to are ...
... critics eat up critics , and compilers rob from compilations . Confucius observes , that it is the duty of the learned to unite society more closely , and to persuade men to become citizens of the world ; but the authors I refer to are ...
Page 75
... critic is often guided by the same motives that direct his author : The author endeavours to persuade us , that he has written a good book ; the critic is equally solicitous to show that he could write a better , had he thought proper ...
... critic is often guided by the same motives that direct his author : The author endeavours to persuade us , that he has written a good book ; the critic is equally solicitous to show that he could write a better , had he thought proper ...
Page 76
... critics are in waiting to bid the public not to laugh at a single line of it ; for themselves had read it , and they know what is most proper to excite laughter . Other critics contradict the fulminations of this tribunal , call them ...
... critics are in waiting to bid the public not to laugh at a single line of it ; for themselves had read it , and they know what is most proper to excite laughter . Other critics contradict the fulminations of this tribunal , call them ...
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... critic , or historian , should presume to engage the company by reading his own works , he was to lay down sixpence previous to opening the manuscript , and should editor on this , and every other occasion , has endeavoured to translate ...
... critic , or historian , should presume to engage the company by reading his own works , he was to lay down sixpence previous to opening the manuscript , and should editor on this , and every other occasion , has endeavoured to translate ...
Page 126
... critic to say but that I have stuck close to the true manner . I have compared a lady's chin to the snow upon the mountains of Bomek ; a soldier's sword to the clouds that obscure the face of heaven . If riches are men- tioned , I ...
... critic to say but that I have stuck close to the true manner . I have compared a lady's chin to the snow upon the mountains of Bomek ; a soldier's sword to the clouds that obscure the face of heaven . If riches are men- tioned , I ...
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