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=Goldsmith, Oliver.= 1728-1774. Irish poet and novelist. A writer of great delicacy and purity of sentiment, possessing a simple, delightful style. His poems, The Deserted Village and The Traveller, are charming pieces of description; his comedies, The Good-Natured Man and She Stoops to Conquer, are bright and sparkling, the latter being perennially fresh; and his novel, The Vicar of Wakefield, is an Eng.
cla.s.sic. _See Lives, by Prior, Forster, W. Irving, and Goldsmith by Wm. Black in Eng. Men of Letters._ _See Select Poems of, edited by W.J. Rolfe._ _Pub. Clx. Har._
=Good, John Mason.= 1764-1827. Physician and miscellaneous writer.
Author Study of Medicine, The Book of Nature, Medical Technology, etc.
_Pub. Har._
=Gordon, George, Lord Byron.= 1788-1824. Childe Harold, Prisoner of Chillon, and Don Juan are his finest poems. A writer of great power and strong personality, whose talent was warped by license and self-will. Don Juan, his most brilliant poem, sins deeply against morality. Manfred, The Giaour, and Lara are striking poems. _See Lives by Galt, Moore, E. Brydges, Lake, and Elze; also, Byron, by Nichols, in Eng. Men of Letters, and the Real Lord Byron by J. C. Jeaffreson._ _See Quarterly Rev., July, 1868, and prefaces to respective editions by Wm. Rossetti and A. C. Swinburne._
=Gore, Mrs. Catherine Grace.= 1799-1861. Novelist. A prolific writer of society tales. Author of The Cabinet Minister, The Royal Favorite, etc. _Pub. Har._
=Gosse, Edmund W.= 184 Poet and critic. Son to P. H. G. Author of Viol and Flute, King Erik, New Poems, Grey in Eng. Men of Letters, etc. A lyrist of much merit. _See Harper's Mag. May, 1882, ”Some London Poets.”_ _Pub. Har. Ho._
=Gosse, Philip Henry.= 181 Zoologist. Author Romance of Natural Hist., Marine Zoology, Evenings with the Microscope, etc. _Pub. Apl.
A. T. S. Lip._
=Goulbourn, Edward Meyrick.= 181 Religious writer. Author Thoughts on Personal Religion, The Holy Catholic Ch., Pursuit of Holiness, etc. _Pub. Apl._
=Gould, Baring.= See Baring-Gould.
=Gower, John.= 1350-1402. Poet. G. wrote the Speculum Meditantis, in French, Vox Clamantis, in Latin, and Confessio Amantis in Eng. _See edition, 3 vols. 8vo, London, 1857._ _See Ward's Eng. Poets, vol. 1; also Rolfe's edition of Pericles._
=Graeme [gr[=a]m], John.= 1748-1772. Scotch poet.
=Graham, Ennis.= See Molesworth, Mrs.
=Grahame, James.= 1765-1811. Scotch poet. Author of The Sabbath, etc.
=Grahame, James, Marquis of Montrose.= 1612-1650. Lyric poet. Author of the famous lyric My Dear and Only Love. _See Biographies by Napier, 1856, and Grant, 1858._
=Grahame, James.= 1790-1842. Scotch historian. Author Hist. U. S., etc. Style dignified and impartial.
=Granger, James.= 1716-1766. Historian. Author Biographical Hist. of England.
=Grant, Mrs. Anne= [of Laggan]. 1755-1838. Scotch poet and miscellaneous writer. Author Memoirs of an American Lady [1808], etc.
_See Memoirs and Correspondence of, 3 vols., 1844._ _Pub. Mu._
=Grant, James.= 180 Journalist. Author of The Bench and the Bar, Sketches in London, etc.
=Grant, James.= 182 Scotch novelist. Author Hist. of India, and a long list of novels which do not take a very high rank. _Pub. Cas.
Rou._
=Grattan, Thos. Colley.= 1796-1864. Irish novelist and poet. Author Highways and Byways, Hist. of the Netherlands, etc. _Pub. Har._
=Gray, David.= 1831-1861. Scotch poet. Author of The Luggie, etc. _See H. G. Bell's edition, 1874._ _See R. Buchanan's David Gray and Other Essays, 1868._
=Gray, Thomas.= 1716-1771. Poet. Author of The Bard, Progress of Poesy, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, etc. A writer of much refinement of expression and quiet sentiment. The calm beauty of the Elegy has made it one of the most popular of Eng. poems. _See Gray, by E. W.
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