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A poor man resembles a fiddler, whose music, though liked, is not much praised, because he lives by it; while a gentleman performer, though the most wretched scraper alive, throws the audience into raptures.
A poor man resembles a fiddler, whose music, though liked, is not much praised, because he lives by it; while a gentleman performer, though the most wretched scraper alive, throws the audience into raptures.
Approximate author period: c. 1751 AD · early modern
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- Oliver Goldsmith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1751 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1728–1774)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 207 · printed citation: Goldsmith · subject: Poverty
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