Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography ; Biography of the Late Margaret Miller DavidsonTwayne Publishers, 1978 - 654 oldal |
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... Conversation was the great staple there , and of this Johnson was a master . He had been a reader and thinker from child- hood : his melancholy temperament , which unfitted him for the pleasures of youth , had made him so . For many ...
... Conversation was the great staple there , and of this Johnson was a master . He had been a reader and thinker from child- hood : his melancholy temperament , which unfitted him for the pleasures of youth , had made him so . For many ...
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... conversation was not of particular force or point as reported by Boswell ; the dinner party was a very small one , in which there was no provocation to intellectual display . After dinner they took tea with the ladies ; where we find ...
... conversation was not of particular force or point as reported by Boswell ; the dinner party was a very small one , in which there was no provocation to intellectual display . After dinner they took tea with the ladies ; where we find ...
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... conversation of course go to glorify Dr. Johnson , for , as he observes in his biography , " his conversation alone , or what led to it , or was interwoven with it , is the business of this work . " Still on the present , as on other ...
... conversation of course go to glorify Dr. Johnson , for , as he observes in his biography , " his conversation alone , or what led to it , or was interwoven with it , is the business of this work . " Still on the present , as on other ...
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | xiv |
Birth and parentageCharacteristics of the Goldsmith race | 5 |
Improvident marriages in the Goldsmith familyGoldsmith at | 13 |
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