THE VIC AR OF WAKEFIELD: A TAL E. By OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Sperate miferi, cavete felices. THE NINTH EDITION. LONDON: Printed for F. POWER and Co. at N° 65, St. Paul's Д in Pater-nofter Row. MDCCXCI. ADVERTISEMENT. HERE are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be faid to prove them beauties. But it is needlefs. A book may be amufing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a fingle abfurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himfelf the three greatest characters upon earth, he is a prieft, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey, as fimple in affluence, and majestic in adverfity. In this age of opulence and refinement whom can fuch a character please? Such Such as are fond of high life, will turn with difdain from the fimplicity of his country fire-fide. Such as A 2 mistake |