 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 ... - Pàgina xxviiiper Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 300 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 pàgines
...OF WAKEFIELD. ADVERTISEMENT. THERE are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....three greatest characters upon earth; he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey ; as simple... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 774 pàgines
...mi%hl be said o prove than beauties. But it is need/as. A book may be amusing with numerous rrori, ickly imitated by the middling gentry, and it soon became the fashion to give Na n himself the three greatest characters upon earth ; he is a priest, an husbandman, and he father of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 pàgines
...(1766.) ADVERTISEMENT. Tartarean hundred faults in this thing, ami an hundred things might lie said m s ; therefore ffrsr^ er it may be I'ery ditll without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites Ji iauel/tAe... | |
 | Library - 1873 - 1084 pàgines
...without weakness." ADVERTISEMENT. THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might st before this hollow place, I resolved to pitch my...hundred yards broad, and about twice as long, and a father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach and ready to obey ; as simple in affluence and... | |
 | 1873 - 1086 pàgines
...tliis thing, and a hundred things might he said to prove them heauties. But it is needless. A hook + a father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach and ready to obey ; as simple in affluence and... | |
 | 1875 - 816 pàgines
...beroemden Vicar of Wakefield. „There are a hundred faults in this thing and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....or it may be very dull without a single absurdity." ') Wat Goldsmith hier van zijn eigen meesterstuk zeide is ook volkomen toepasselijk op Melati's roman.... | |
 | 1876 - 670 pàgines
...said of his Vicar of Wakefield : "There are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....may be very dull without a single absurdity." The books of which we have been speaking are amusing in spite of errors and absurdities, and they are never... | |
 | 1876 - 656 pàgines
...said of his Vicar of Wakefield : "There are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....may be very dull without a single absurdity." The books of which we have been speaking are amusing in spite of errors and absurdities, and they are never... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 322 pàgines
...SINCKKE ItEOAUDS OF THE AUTHOR. There are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....it may be very dull without a single absurdity.— GOLDSMITH. When this bundle of egotisms is bound up together, as they may be one day, if no accident... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 780 pàgines
...WAKEFIELD. (1766.) ADVERTISEMENT. There are an hundred faults in this thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....three greatest characters upon earth ; he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey ; as simple... | |
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