 THERE are few writers for whom the reader feels such personal kindness as for Oliver G-oldsmith, for few have so eminently possessed the magic gift of identifying themselves with their writings.  Works of Washington Irving - Page 55by Washington Irving - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...INTO THE PRESENT .STATE OF POLITE LEAHKING a 2 1 MEMOIRS OK THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. THERE are few writers for whom the reader feels such personal kindness as for Oliver Goldsmith. The fascinating ease and simplicity of his style; the benevolence that beams through every page ; the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 536 pages
...literature, which he so highly adorned."—Pruse Works, vol. iii. p. 258, edit. 1834. Washington Irving. " There are few writers for whom the reader feels such personal kindness as for Oliver Goldsmith. The fascinating ease and simplicity of his style ; the benevolence that beams through every page; the... | |
 | 1840 - 560 pages
...adorns. There are few writers, says Mr. IRVING, for whom the reader feels such personal kindness as for GOLDSMITH, for few have so eminently possessed the...gift of identifying themselves with their writings : ery page, and grow into familiar intimacy witb him as we read. The and rnuke us love the man at the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...Comedy, . . 523 Scotch Marriages, .... 525 Dignity of Human Nature, . 596 OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF There are few writers for whom the reader feels such personal kindness as for Oliver Goldsmith. The fascinating ease and simplicity of his style; the benevolence that beams through every page ; the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 220 pages
...literature, which he so highly adorned." — Prose Works, vol. iii., p. 258, edit. 1834. Washington Irving. " There are few writers for whom the reader feels such personal kindness as for Oliver Goldsmith. The fascinating ease and simplicity of his style ; the benevolence that beams through every page ;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...Scotch Marriages, . . . .525 XXIV. Dignity of Human Nature, . 596 OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS CfoUrsmttn. There are few writers for whom the reader feels such personal kindness as for Oliver Goldsmith. The fascinating ease and simplicity of his style; the benevolence that beams through every page ; the... | |
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1845 - 436 pages
...literature, which he so highly adorned." — Prose Works, vol. iii., p. 258, edit. 1834. Washington Irving. " There are few writers for whom the reader feels such personal kindness as for Oliver Goldsmith. The fascinating ease and simplicity of his style ; the benevolence that beams through every page ;... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 406 pages
...hornpipe and epigram. — Uncle Contarine. — School studies and school sports. — Mistakes of a night, THERE are few writers for whom the reader feels such...with him as we read. The artless benevolence that heams throughout his works; the whimsical, yet amiable views of human life and human nature ; the unforced... | |
 | 1852 - 596 pages
...faithful living transcripts of originals. Another cause is, as one of his biographers observes, because " few have so eminently possessed the magic gift of...identifying themselves with their writings. We read Goldsmith's character in every page he has written ; and grow into familiar intimacy with him as we... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 614 pages
...hornpipe und epigram — Uncle Contarme — School studies and school sports — Mistakes of a night THERE are few writers for whom the reader feels such personal kindness as lor Oliver Goldsmith, for few hwve so eminently possessed the magic gift of identifying themselves... | |
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