Oliver Goldsmith

Their later reading drew on a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith 's History of England, Hannah More 's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts 's Doctrine of...

Their education continued at home from a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith 's History of England, Hannah More 's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts 's Doctrine...

Thereafter, Patrick Brontë educated his remaining children at home, using standard educational texts including Thomas Salmon 's A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, a condensed version of Oliver Goldsmith 's History of England,...

As a small child DW loved the Bible. She had a child's bible with illustrations, and was fascinated by stories of Christ's miracles (though a blind man took it badly when she proposed spitting...

HW 's story of her education is one of tyranny and resistance. Her worst beating from her father was incurred for obstinacy. Her elder sister Jane (called Diana in her memoirs) was supposed to teach...

Her mother began teaching her out of Goldsmith 's History of England (1764), started Elizabeth on the piano before she was five, and engaged a Swiss woman to teach her French, but found both her...

Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio...

She stoutly rejects Goldsmith 's assertion that a woman who has stooped to folly can only die: I did not, however, feel inclined to die when I could no longer conceal what the world falsely...

Visitors to her parents' house included Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel Johnson , whom the Hawkins children nicknamed Polyphemus, after the one-eyed giant in the Odyssey. After Johnson's death, John Hawkins was...

Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds , Arthur Murphy , Edmund Burke , Oliver Goldsmith , Charles Burney , and David Garrick . Later came the young Frances Burney , who became a...

Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period...

During her childhood, ECK associated with a variety of celebrated people through her family connections. Her mother was a close friend of painter and writer Frances Reynolds (sister to the more famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds

This novel contains the first appearance of MEB 's serially-employed character, the proto-sensation novelist Sigismund Smith (although that bitter term of reproach, sensation, had not been invented for the terror of romancers in the...

A title-page quotation from John MiltonParadise Lost puts together, with an only an ellipsis between them, the persuasive powers of the fallen angel Belial (who could make the worse appear / The better reason) and...

The Englishman ties its first sentence to a quotation from Goldsmith 's Citizen of the World about spontaneous liking for certain individuals. Its first sentence is This spontaneous friendship is not more the offering of...