 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 - 1881 - 500 pàgines
...see published. ADVERTISEMENT. 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 inay be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of... | |
 | John Dryden, Oliver Goldsmith - 1882 - 314 pàgines
...begins with the admission that " 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 verdict instantly given by the whole body of readers was, that it was " amusing," and something more.... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 426 pàgines
...spirit. " There are a hundred faults in this thing," says the preface, " and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single ab1 See Scott's " Memoir of Johnson." surdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 360 pàgines
...numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single ab: See Scott's " Memoir of Johnson." surdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth:—he is a priest, a husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and... | |
 | William Black - 1883 - 268 pàgines
...fire. I at first ADVERTISEMENT. THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless....characters upon earth; he is a priest, a husbandman, and a father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey — as simple in affluence,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1883 - 166 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....without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece imites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth ; he is a priest, an husbandman, and the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 528 pàgines
...profligate. — B.] ADVERTISEMENT. THEKE 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 - 1885 - 506 pàgines
...profligate. — B.] 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 - 1884 - 784 pàgines
...in this thing, and an hundrfd things might be said to prwc thfm beauties. But it is needless. A took ldom "ound success; he has been obliged, in order...passion, to imitate words by sounds, which, though an husbandman, and like father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey ; as simple... | |
 | Ludwig Geiger - 1885 - 496 pàgines
...das mit den Worten beginnt: »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«. Und ähnlich heisst es im 15. Capitel, in einer Parallele zwischen Menschen und Büchern: »As the... | |
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