 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...GOLDSMITH." OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. of ADVERTISEMENT. THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a luuulred onder what they see in me to reat me so! orinnaybe very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three... | |
 | Esq. J. H. JAMES (of London.) - 1847 - 184 pages
...against the stream. We arrived in town towards evening. For whom are you doing that? Walk before me. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. Our doubts were now at an end. Have you written to him. We shall go to the Rhine in the Autumn. Through... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...knew this. ' There are a hundred faults in this thing,' he said, in his brief advertisement to it; ' and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless.' (His meaning is, that to make beauties out of faults, be the proof ever so successful, does not mend... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...this. ' There are a hundred faults in this ' thing,' he said, in his brief advertisement to it ; ' and a ' hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. ' But it is needless.' (His meaning is, that to make beauties out of faults, be the proof ever so successful, does not mend... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...this. ' There are a hundred faults in this ' thing,' he said, in his brief advertisement to it ; ' and a ' hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. ' But it is needless.' (His meaning is, that to make beauties out of faults, be the proof ever so successful, does not mend... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...this. ' There are a hundred faults in this ' thing,' he said, in his brief advertisement to it ; ' and a ' hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. ' But it is needless.' (His meaning is, that to make beauties out of faults, be the proof ever so successful, does not mend... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...doubt, indeed, whether they are faults at all. "There are," says Goldsmith, "a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties." This was an author's preface to one of the most charming works ever written ; we speak of the "Vicar... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1850 - 298 pages
...serious and the comic, is most happily displayed. ADVERTISEMENT. THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove...without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unite's in himself the three greatest characters upon earth ; he is a priest, a husbandman, and a father... | |
 | 1851 - 492 pages
...attended to. As Oliver Goldsmith said of his Vicar of Wakefield, — a hundred faults may be found, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties ; but we cannot allow that the red loam, without the green sward, at the Valley of Sweet Waters, is to be... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...VOL. i. 3 n COPIED ADVERTISEMENT OF GOLDSMITH'S VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove...piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth : he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach,... | |
| |
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. 
