 | Forbes Winslow - 1860 - 618 страница
...in his preface to the " Vicar of Wakefield," — " There are an hundred faults in this thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties....errors, or it may be dull without a single absurdity." 23 CAVBJIDISH SQDARE, LONDOM, April, 1860. C0NTENTS. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. rtoxs Important aphorisms... | |
 | Anne Mathews - 1860 - 380 страница
...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... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 страница
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 страница
...causo of fear. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. ADVERTISEMENT. THERE are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties....may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 страница
...(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 страница
...without restraint, and easy without weakness." ADVERTISEMENT. THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, n the flat of the green, just before this hollow place,...This plain was not above an hundred yards broad, a very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters... | |
 | 1873 - 1084 страница
...without restraint, and easy without weakness." ADVERTISEMENT. THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties....may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters... | |
 | William Sharp - 1874 - 848 страница
...the first sentence of Goldsmith's advertisement : — " There are a hundred ' faults in this thing ; and a hundred things might be 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 страница
...beter dan die van den zoo beroemden Vicar of Wakefield. „There are a hundred faults in this thing and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties....may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity." ') Wat Goldsmith hier van zijn eigen meesterstuk zeide is ook... | |
 | 1876 - 656 страница
...with truth what Goldsmith 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....may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity." The books of which we have been speaking are amusing in spite... | |
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THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a 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. 
