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Image 1 of Miscellanies,- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
- Date: 1898
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Image 5 of Miscellanies, meg he TNO NI BY _ AUSTIN DOBSON Ipsa varietate tentamus efficere ut alia alits gquedam fortasse omnibus placean Puiiny TO PATERNUS NEW YORK DODD MEAD AND COMPANY 1898- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
- Date: 1898
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Image 11 of Miscellanies, i 2 a y ie CONTENTS PAGE GOLDSMITHS POEMS AND PLAYS 6 s 7 PMEHBOS MEMUNTSCENCES ie a0 6 eee 83 Hee WAGE SE eIEN OF STEELE 0101 5 62 a 57…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 13 of Miscellanies, A MISCELLANIES _GOLDSMITHS POEMS AND PLAYS HIRTY years of takingin fifteen years of givingoutthat in brief is Oliver Goldsmiths story When in 1758 his failure to pass at Surgeons Hall finally threw…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
- Date: 1898
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Image 14 of Miscellanies, 8 Miscellanies of the press an usher at a Peckham academy Judged by ordinary standards he had wantonly wasted his time And yet as things fell out it is doubtful whether his…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 15 of Miscellanies, Goldsmiths Poems and Plays 9 tunities To do as Goldsmith did would scarcely enable a man to write a Vicar of Wakefield or a Deserted Village cer tainly his practice cannot be…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 16 of Miscellanies, 10 Miscellanies doubtful verses for Jane Contarine there is no definite evidence that from a doggerel couplet in his childhood to an epigram not much better than doggerel composed when he was…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 17 of Miscellanies, Goldsmiths Poems and Plays 11 although he continued to make spasmodic efforts to extricate himself from the toils detained him to the day of his death If there is no evidence that…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 18 of Miscellanies, 12 Miscellanies manner which is fatal to agreeable trifling an objection intimately connected with the feeling which afterwards made him the champion on the stage of character and humour Among the poets…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 19 of Miscellanies, Goldsmiths Poems and Plays 13 mended Gray to take the advice of Isocrates and study the people If with these ideas he had been able to divest himself of the warbling groves…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 20 of Miscellanies, 14 Miscellanies Mad Dog and Madam Blaize are both more or less constructed on the old French popular song of the hero of Pavia Jacques de Chabannes Seigneur de la Palice sometimes…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
- Date: 1898
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Image 21 of Miscellanies, Goldsmiths Poems and Plays 15 ous palace of Gallic adaptation one does not expect to find him throwing stones at Prior for borrowing from the French or commenting solemnly in the Life…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 22 of Miscellanies, 16 Miscellanies sovereign the other to deplore the increase of luxury and the miseries of depopulation But as a crowd of commentators have pointed out it is hazardous for a poet to…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 23 of Miscellanies, Goldsmiths Poems and Plays 17 upon their decrepit standard Even in The Traveller and The Deserted Village there are indications of overlabour but in a poem which comes between them the once…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 24 of Miscellanies, 18 Miscellanies with a ballad of our own day in the same measure the Talking Oak of Tennyson The remaining poems of Goldsmith excluding the Captivity and the admittedly occasional Threnodia Augustalis…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 25 of Miscellanies, Goldsmiths Poems and Plays 19 hasa kind of echo in the Too nice for a statesman too proud for a wit of Burkes portrait in Retaliation What is still more remarkable is…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 26 of Miscellanies, 20 Miscellanies nitely traced is 21 I cannot afford to court the draggletail muses he said laughingly to Lord Lisburn they would let me starve but by my other labours I can…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 27 of Miscellanies, Goldsmiths Poems and Plays 21 the publication of the Vicar of Wakefield for _ four years and when at last it was issued its first burst of success a success as far…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 28 of Miscellanies, 22 Miscellanies players in his writings hinted that he himself had once worn the comic sock as Scrub in The Beaux Stratagem and it is clear that soon after he arrived in…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 29 of Miscellanies, Goldsmiths Poems and Plays 23 to his gifts But when in 1766 the Clandes tine Marriage of Garrick and Colman with its evergreen Lord Ogleby seemed to herald a return to the…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
- Date: 1898
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Image 30 of Miscellanies, 24 Miscellanies timentalist of the first water Upon the heels of the enthusiastic reception which Garricks administrative tact secured for the superfine en tanglements of False Delicacy came limping The GoodNaturd Man…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
- Date: 1898
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Image 31 of Miscellanies, Goldsmiths Poems and Plays 25 clear that everything considered The Good Naturd Man was unfairly treated by the pub lic Because Kellys play was praised too much it by no means follows…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 32 of Miscellanies, 26 _Miscellanies grace of Goldsmiths easy pen and in the absence of stagecraft sparkles with neat and effective epigrams One of these may be men tioned as illustrating the writers curious per…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 33 of Miscellanies, Goldsmiths Poems and Plays 27 Still he had never abandoned his ambition to re store humour and character to the stage and as time went on the sense of his past discourage…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 34 of Miscellanies, 28 Miscellanies and Goldsmith was spared none of his former humiliations Even from the outset all was against him His difference with Garrick had long been adjusted and the Drury Lane mana…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
- Date: 1898
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Image 35 of Miscellanies, Goldsmiths Poems and Plays 29 viously held no more exalted position than that of groundharlequin while one of its most promi nent characters had simply been a postboy in The GoodNaturd Man…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
- Date: 1898
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Image 36 of Miscellanies, 30 Miscellanies Julia for the benefit of the sentimentalists Goldsmith made no such concession and his wholesome hearty merriment put to flight the Comedy of Tears even as the Coquecigrues vanished before…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 37 of Miscellanies, Goldsmiths Poems and Plays 31 Neville are not only charming young women but charming characters while Marlow and Hastings are much more than stage young men And let it be remembered it…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
- Date: 1898
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Image 38 of Miscellanies, 32 Miscellanies exhaustible The question cannot be answered Through debt and drudgery and depression the writers genius had still advanced and these might yet have proved powerless to check his progress But…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
- Date: 1898
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Image 39 of Miscellanies, ANGELOS REMINISCENCES the year 175 it is not possible to fix the date more precisely there was what would now be called a public assault of arms at one of the great…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
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Image 40 of Miscellanies, 34 Miscellanies is more he kept his promise He afterwards fenced with several of the first masters not one of whom says the narrator of the story could disturb a single leaf…- Contributor: Dobson, Austin
- Date: 1898
About this Item
Title
- Miscellanies,
Names
- Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921.
Created / Published
- New York, Dodd, Mead and company, 1898.
Headings
- - English literature--18th century--History and criticism
- - Goldsmith, Oliver,--1730?-1774--Criticism and interpretation
- - Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century
- - Steele, Richard,--Sir,--1672-1729
- - Boswell, James,--1740-1795
- - Gay, John,--1685-1732
- - Marteilhe, Jean,--1684-1777
- - Angelo, Henry. [from old catalog]
- - Taylor, John,--1757-1832
- - Raimbach, Abraham,--1776-1843
- - Luttrell, Henry,--1765?-1851. [from old catalog]
- - Whitehall Palace (London, England)
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 364 p. front. (port.) fold. plan. 18 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- PR441 .D6
Library of Congress Control Number
- 98001496
Online Format
- online text
- image