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Anecdotes Of Dr. Goldsmith.
ANECDOTES OF DR . GOLDSMITH .
DR . JOHNSON did not think the life of any literary man in England well written ; " for besides , " says he , " the common incidents of life , it should tell us his studies , his private anecdotes , and modes of living—the means by which he attained to excellence , and his opinion of his own works . " Upon this idea the following circumstances relative to the life of Dr . Goldsmith ( hitherto unpublished ) are iven by a person who lived . in
g the closest habits of intimacy with the Doctor for the last ten years of his life . Dr . Goldsmith ' s first establishment in London , after his travels , was as journeyman to a chymist near Fish-street-hill ; and hearing that his friend Dr . Sleig h ( formerly a fellow-student of his at
Edinburgh ) was in town , he waited with anxiety for the Sunday following to pay him a visit ; " hut notwithstanding it was Sunday , " said the Doctor , " and it is to be supposed in my best clothes , Sleig h scarcely knew me—such is the tax the -unfortunate pay to poverty—however , when he did recollect me ,, I found his heart as warm as ever , and he shared his purse and friendship with me during his continuance in London . " *
By the recommendation of his principal , the chymist , who law in Goldsmith talents above his condition , he soon after became an usher to the Rev . Dr . Milner ' s Academy , at Peckham , where he continued till such time as his criticisms in the Monthly-Review introduced him to the acquaintance of Mr . Griffith , the principal proprietor , who engaged him in the compilation of it . The circumstance of his being usher at Peckham Academy was
the only sera of Goldsmith ' s life that he was vain enough to be ashamed of , forgetting " that a man cannot become mean by a mean employment . " He frequently used to talk of his distresses on the Continent , such as living on the hospitalities of the friars in convents , sleeping in barns , and picking up a kind of mendicant livelihood , by the German flute , with great pleasantry ; but the little story of Peckham School he always carefully avoided ; and when an old friend one day very innocently made use of that
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Anecdotes Of Dr. Goldsmith.
ANECDOTES OF DR . GOLDSMITH .
DR . JOHNSON did not think the life of any literary man in England well written ; " for besides , " says he , " the common incidents of life , it should tell us his studies , his private anecdotes , and modes of living—the means by which he attained to excellence , and his opinion of his own works . " Upon this idea the following circumstances relative to the life of Dr . Goldsmith ( hitherto unpublished ) are iven by a person who lived . in
g the closest habits of intimacy with the Doctor for the last ten years of his life . Dr . Goldsmith ' s first establishment in London , after his travels , was as journeyman to a chymist near Fish-street-hill ; and hearing that his friend Dr . Sleig h ( formerly a fellow-student of his at
Edinburgh ) was in town , he waited with anxiety for the Sunday following to pay him a visit ; " hut notwithstanding it was Sunday , " said the Doctor , " and it is to be supposed in my best clothes , Sleig h scarcely knew me—such is the tax the -unfortunate pay to poverty—however , when he did recollect me ,, I found his heart as warm as ever , and he shared his purse and friendship with me during his continuance in London . " *
By the recommendation of his principal , the chymist , who law in Goldsmith talents above his condition , he soon after became an usher to the Rev . Dr . Milner ' s Academy , at Peckham , where he continued till such time as his criticisms in the Monthly-Review introduced him to the acquaintance of Mr . Griffith , the principal proprietor , who engaged him in the compilation of it . The circumstance of his being usher at Peckham Academy was
the only sera of Goldsmith ' s life that he was vain enough to be ashamed of , forgetting " that a man cannot become mean by a mean employment . " He frequently used to talk of his distresses on the Continent , such as living on the hospitalities of the friars in convents , sleeping in barns , and picking up a kind of mendicant livelihood , by the German flute , with great pleasantry ; but the little story of Peckham School he always carefully avoided ; and when an old friend one day very innocently made use of that