 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1887 - 246 pages
...BY JS CUSHINC & Co., BOSTON. ADVERTISEMENT. r I ""HERE 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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1889 - 360 pages
...quite as patly as Goldsmith himself uses them, when we say: "There are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties....errors, or it may be dull without a single absurdity." This much must be allowed: that, whatever its errors, to the lover of his native literature Mr. Richardson's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1893 - 778 pages
...(1766.) ADVERTISEMENT. Tktre art an hundred faults in this thing, and an hundred things mighl be said k anted, and was going to embrace his uncle, which the other repulsed with an trron, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself... | |
 | Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall - 1894 - 928 pages
...Goldsmith lived to see published. I ADVERTISEMENT. TIIEKE 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 - 1895 - 236 pages
...reader's countenance. HES ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION. 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... | |
 | James Morgan Hart - 1895 - 396 pages
...line. But the following, from Goldsmith, is faulty : 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 - 1895 - 280 pages
...ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION. There are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hun. dred things might lie said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A...may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself th& three greatest characters... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1896 - 320 pages
...of his paternal rule I ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION. THERE are a hundred faults in this thing, and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties....or it may be dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth : he is a priest, a husbandman,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1896 - 264 pages
...still the truest criticism that can be made of it. " There are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties....or it may be dull without a single absurdity." The "Vicar of Wakefield" abundantly justifies its author's dictum. It has numerous errors, but it is one... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1896 - 272 pages
...PATER-NOSTEH ROW, LONDON. MDCCLXVI. ADVEKTISEMENT, 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... | |
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