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- Author: Washington Irving
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 150
- ISBN-10: 1500478857
- ISBN-13: 9781500478858
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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In the course of a revised edition of my works I have come to a biographical sketch of Goldsmith, published several years since. It was written hastily, as introductory to a selection from his writings; and, though the facts contained in it were collected from various sources, I was chiefly indebted for them to the voluminous work of Mr. James Prior, who had collected and collated the most minute particulars of the poet's history with unwearied research and scrupulous fidelity; but had rendered them, as I thought, in a form too cumbrous and overlaid with details and disquisitions, and matters uninteresting to the general reader.
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- Author: Washington Irving
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 150
- ISBN-10: 1500478857
- ISBN-13: 9781500478858
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
In the course of a revised edition of my works I have come to a biographical sketch of Goldsmith, published several years since. It was written hastily, as introductory to a selection from his writings; and, though the facts contained in it were collected from various sources, I was chiefly indebted for them to the voluminous work of Mr. James Prior, who had collected and collated the most minute particulars of the poet's history with unwearied research and scrupulous fidelity; but had rendered them, as I thought, in a form too cumbrous and overlaid with details and disquisitions, and matters uninteresting to the general reader.
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