 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 pages
...his " Vicar " (and with vastly more reason), that " there are a hundred faults in this thing ; yet a book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be dull without a single absurdity." It would be great temerity to appropriate to our humble essay the... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - 1860 - 618 pages
...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....may be amusing with numerous ' errors, or it may be dull without a single absurdity." 23 CAVBJIDISH SQDARE, LONDOM, April, 1860. C0NTENTS. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.... | |
 | Anne Mathews - 1860 - 380 pages
...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 deficiency in conversation. " I can... | |
 | Johannes Fölsing - 1861 - 282 pages
...tjl golgentee ju merten . A. I may, ïann, bejeidjnet tcgif d)e SDío'gítdjfett: A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. Even the humblest fortune may grant happiness. She believed , he might once have been a very fine gentleman.... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...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 upon earth : he is a priest,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 pages
...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....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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 774 pages
...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 pages
...(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 pages
...exact without restraint, and easy without weakness." ADVERTISEMENT. THERE are a hundred faults in this all. On the flat of the green, just before this hollow...hundred yards broad, and about twice as long, and upon earth ; he is a priest, a husbandman, and a father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach... | |
 | 1873 - 1086 pages
...tliis thing, and a hundred things might he said to prove them heauties. But it is needless. A hook + upon earth ; he is a priest, a husbandman, and a father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach... | |
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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. 
