 | William Sharp - 1874 - 848 pages
...which can be put before this undertaking is the first sentence of Goldsmith's advertisement : — " There are a hundred ' faults in this thing ; and a...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 pages
...noemen. De 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...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.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1876 - 128 pages
...Thackeray and Dickens. The advertisement to the book, written by Goldsmith himself, is worth preserving : " There are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred...piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth ; he is a priest, a husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach,... | |
 | 1876 - 656 pages
...these three 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...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 pages
...these three 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...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 pages
...WHITE, 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...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 pages
...a 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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1877 - 526 pages
...my wish is, that you may never be mistaken in the wife. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. i PREFACE. | HE RE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred...piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth ; he is a priest, a husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1880 - 382 pages
...place, as showing so interesting an episode in the history of the book itself. ADVERTISEMENT. HERE are a hundred faults in this Thing, and a hundred...piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth ; he is a priest, a husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach,... | |
 | John Elford - 1880 - 290 pages
...animum rebus (quod Eatio facit, et Historia) submittendo. — BACON : De Augmcntis Scientiarum. jt There are a hundred faults in this thing and a hundred...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... | |
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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. 
