Author: J. W. M. Gibbs

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9780332121093

Excerpt from The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Vol. 4 of 5: A New Edition, Containing Pieces Hitherto Uncollected, and a Life of the Author; Biographies: Criticisms: Later Collected Essays The Later Collected Essays in like manner comprise several pieces now first included in Goldsmith' 8 Works The most important of these are A Poetical Scale, ' The History of Our _q_w11 Language, ' and Phanor, ' a, fairy tale, all from the Literary Magazine of 1758, and constituting some of the earliest of Goldsmith' s writings. It has been found necessary to extend this edition from the four volumes originally announced to five. The col lection of Goldsmith's Prefaces and the extracts from the 'animated Nature' will come, with 'goody two-shoes' and other pieces, in the fifth, instead of in the fourth volume as previously intended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.