 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.  The life of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 113by sir James Prior - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Elijah Woolsey, George Coles - 1845 - 180 pages
...friends and the desire of doing good. As Goldsmith says, " There are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties; but it is needless." If the facts related in these pages are not equal in interest to the beautiful fictions contained in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 374 pages
...ADVERTISEMENT. ' ' t \ --*' ,»i, i\<"- -,•!-•-« ^'v 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 Ibis piepi' unites in himself the three greatest... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...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 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... | |
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