The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809 |
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... writer of real merit now may easily be rich if his heart be set only on fortune : and for those who have no merit , it is but fit that such should remain in merited obscurity . He may now refuse an invitation to dinner , without fearing ...
... writer of real merit now may easily be rich if his heart be set only on fortune : and for those who have no merit , it is but fit that such should remain in merited obscurity . He may now refuse an invitation to dinner , without fearing ...
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... Drydens , Butlers , Otways , and Farquhars were all writers for bread . Believe me , my friend , hunger has a most amazing faculty for sharpening the genius ; and he who with a full belly , can think like a. CITIZEN OF THE WORLD . 93.
... Drydens , Butlers , Otways , and Farquhars were all writers for bread . Believe me , my friend , hunger has a most amazing faculty for sharpening the genius ; and he who with a full belly , can think like a. CITIZEN OF THE WORLD . 93.
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... writers they have among them at present . For my own part , were I to buy an hat , I would not have it from a stocking - maker , but an hat- ter ; were I to buy shoes , I should not go to the tai lor's for that purpose . It is just so ...
... writers they have among them at present . For my own part , were I to buy an hat , I would not have it from a stocking - maker , but an hat- ter ; were I to buy shoes , I should not go to the tai lor's for that purpose . It is just so ...
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... writer was branded in ge- neral terms as a bad man ; another of exquisite deli- cacy as a poet was reproached for wanting good - na- ture ; a third was accused of free - thinking ; and a fourth of having once been a player . Strange ...
... writer was branded in ge- neral terms as a bad man ; another of exquisite deli- cacy as a poet was reproached for wanting good - na- ture ; a third was accused of free - thinking ; and a fourth of having once been a player . Strange ...
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... writers . The Critics , these enemies of Dryden and Pope , were their enemies . So Jacob and Johnson , instead of mending by criticism , called it envy , and because Dryden and Pope were censured , they compared themselves to Dryden and ...
... writers . The Critics , these enemies of Dryden and Pope , were their enemies . So Jacob and Johnson , instead of mending by criticism , called it envy , and because Dryden and Pope were censured , they compared themselves to Dryden and ...
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