 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 774 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...(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... | |
 | William Sharp - 1874 - 838 sayfa
...be put before this undertaking is the first sentence of Goldsmith's advertisement :— " There are a hundred faults in this thing ; and a hundred things...said to prove them beauties ; but it is needless." THE METALS. More than forty metals are now known to chemists ; with some of these little has yet been... | |
 | 1875 - 816 sayfa
...intrigue en ontwikkeling is niet veel beter dan die van den zoo beroemden Vicar of Wakefield. „There are a hundred faults in this thing and a hundred things...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 - 656 sayfa
...works doubtless might be said with truth what Goldsmith said of his Vicar of Wakefield : "There are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things...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 - 670 sayfa
...works doubtless might be said with truth what Goldsmith said of his Vicar of Wakefield : "There are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things...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 sayfa
...EDITOB OP CHICAGO TRIBUNE THIS "&ORK ts INSCRIBED, WITH THE SINCKKE ItEOAUDS OF THE AUTHOR. There are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things...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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 sayfa
...successful translation, and we may say of it what Goldsmith said of his incomparable fiction : " There are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things...said to prove them beauties, but it is needless." About the time that he commenced it, Pope wrote : " I have the greatest proof in nature of the amusing... | |
 | John Elford - 1880 - 290 sayfa
...rebus (quod Eatio facit, et Historia) submittendo. — BACON : De Augmcntis Scientiarum. jt There are a hundred faults in this thing and a hundred things...said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A hook may be amusing with numerous errors and dull without a single absurdity. — Pref. to Vicar of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 500 sayfa
...Goldsmith lived to 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... | |
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A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. 
