THERE are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale ... - Pāgina xxviiiper Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 300 pāginesVisualitzaciķ completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 pāgines
...his " Vicar " (and with vastly more reason), that " there are a hundred faults in this thing ; yet a book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be dull without a single absurdity." It would be great temerity to appropriate to our humble essay the... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 pāgines
...his " Yicar " (and with vastly more reason), that " there are a hundred faults in this thing ; yet a book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be dull without a single absurdity." It would be great temerity to appropriate to our humble essay the... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 pāgines
...his " Vicar " (and with vastly more reason), that " there are a hundred faults in this thing ; yet a book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be dull without a single absurdity." It would be great temerity to appropriate to our humble essay the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 546 pāgines
...as are learning our language.] There are a hundred faults in tkis thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....piece unites in himself the three greatest characters on earth : he is a priest, a husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach... | |
| Forbes Benignus Winslow - 1860 - 618 pāgines
..." Vicar of Wakefield," — " There are an hundred faults in this thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be dull without a single absurdity." 23 CAVENDISH SQUARE, LONDON, April, 1860. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.... | |
| Anne Mathews - 1860 - 380 pāgines
...We have snakes in our cups and in our dishes, and whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot. A Book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. Addison, conscious of his talents as a writer, acknowledged his deficiency in conversation. " I can... | |
| Johannes Fölsing - 1861 - 282 pāgines
...tjl golgentee ju merten . A. I may, īann, bejeidjnet tcgif d)e SDío'gítdjfett: A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. Even the humblest fortune may grant happiness. She believed , he might once have been a very fine gentleman.... | |
| James Whiteside - 1862 - 100 pāgines
...the book is to educate the heart — and who is the hero of " the fable," let Goldsmith answer : " The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth, he is a priest, an husbandman, the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey, as simple... | |
| esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pāgines
...and the melancholy almost always superstitious. — 342. GOLDSMITH.— VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. (1822.) A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. Tbe hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth : he is a priest,... | |
| James Whiteside - 1868 - 498 pāgines
...the book i? to educate the heart — and who is the hero of " the fable," let Goldsmith answer : " The hero of this piece unites in himself the three...greatest characters upon earth — he is a priest, an husbandman, the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey, as simple... | |
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