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Anecdotes Of Dr. Goldsmith.
mine . So , Mr . Anet , a good evening to you . —Here tne conversa ^' -on ei ; ded . and , 1 believe , the book was never since published . Dr Johnson observes , in his Life of Milton , that his bioo-ra- ) h-rs luive been careful in mentioning historically every house fn wi-irh this great poet lived , " as if it were an injury to neglect iwmhxr anv place that he honoured by his presence , Withto this I shall
out bemo-Scrupulously attached principle , mention he dlffsveut residences of Goldsmith , only as they afford a pler-rino-kind of information to sympathetic minds ,- and mark the graduafprogress of his advancements in fortune and literary reputation . . .,, . , r The Doctor , soon after his acquaintance with Newbery , for readwriter" removed to lodgings
whom he held » the pen of a y , in Wine-office-court , Fleet-street , where he finished his Vicar of Wakefield , " and on which his friend Newbery advanced hint twenty guineas : "A sum , " says the Doctor , « I was so little used to receive in a lump , that I felt myself under the embarrassment of Captain Brazen in the lay " whether 1 should build a privateer or
p , a playhouse with the money . " - About the same time he published " The Traveller , or , A Prospect of Society , " Part of this Poem , as he says in his dedication to his brother , the Rev . Henry Goldsmith , was formerly written to ' him from Switzerland , " and contained about two hundred This manuscrilay by the Doctor some yearswithout
lines . pt , any determined idea of publishing , till persuaded to it by his friend Dr . Johnson , who gave him some general hints towards enlarging it , and in particular , as I have been informed , the concluding lines of that poem , which Goldsmith has thus yery beautifully versified :
" In every government though terrors reign , Though tyrant king , or tyrant laws restrain , How small of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or lungs can cause or cure f Still to ourselves in every place consign d Our own felicity we make or find ;
With secret course , which no loud storms annoy , Glides the smooth current of domestic joy ; The lifted axe , the agonizing wheel , Luke ' s iron crown , and Damien ' s bed of steel , To men remote from —but rarely known
power , Leave reason , faith , and conscience all our own . " Dr . Johnson , though no stranger to Goldsmith ' s oddities , a ! syays spoke respectably of his genius , and praised « The 1 raveller
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Anecdotes Of Dr. Goldsmith.
mine . So , Mr . Anet , a good evening to you . —Here tne conversa ^' -on ei ; ded . and , 1 believe , the book was never since published . Dr Johnson observes , in his Life of Milton , that his bioo-ra- ) h-rs luive been careful in mentioning historically every house fn wi-irh this great poet lived , " as if it were an injury to neglect iwmhxr anv place that he honoured by his presence , Withto this I shall
out bemo-Scrupulously attached principle , mention he dlffsveut residences of Goldsmith , only as they afford a pler-rino-kind of information to sympathetic minds ,- and mark the graduafprogress of his advancements in fortune and literary reputation . . .,, . , r The Doctor , soon after his acquaintance with Newbery , for readwriter" removed to lodgings
whom he held » the pen of a y , in Wine-office-court , Fleet-street , where he finished his Vicar of Wakefield , " and on which his friend Newbery advanced hint twenty guineas : "A sum , " says the Doctor , « I was so little used to receive in a lump , that I felt myself under the embarrassment of Captain Brazen in the lay " whether 1 should build a privateer or
p , a playhouse with the money . " - About the same time he published " The Traveller , or , A Prospect of Society , " Part of this Poem , as he says in his dedication to his brother , the Rev . Henry Goldsmith , was formerly written to ' him from Switzerland , " and contained about two hundred This manuscrilay by the Doctor some yearswithout
lines . pt , any determined idea of publishing , till persuaded to it by his friend Dr . Johnson , who gave him some general hints towards enlarging it , and in particular , as I have been informed , the concluding lines of that poem , which Goldsmith has thus yery beautifully versified :
" In every government though terrors reign , Though tyrant king , or tyrant laws restrain , How small of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or lungs can cause or cure f Still to ourselves in every place consign d Our own felicity we make or find ;
With secret course , which no loud storms annoy , Glides the smooth current of domestic joy ; The lifted axe , the agonizing wheel , Luke ' s iron crown , and Damien ' s bed of steel , To men remote from —but rarely known
power , Leave reason , faith , and conscience all our own . " Dr . Johnson , though no stranger to Goldsmith ' s oddities , a ! syays spoke respectably of his genius , and praised « The 1 raveller