...him in Retaliation as "the Terence of England, the mender of hearts" ? Or in this condescension: — Goldsmith had the joy of finding his ingenious work...smiled at his eccentricities, esteemed him for his good qualities. At one period in the history of English drama the leader of the sentimental school...

...prudently administered to him by a guinea at a time. In the event he paid off the landlady's score, and redeemed the person of his friend from her embraces....ingenious work succeed beyond his hopes, and .from th:it time began to place a confidence in the resources of his talents, which thenceforward enabled...

...bookseller to whom sold.'" Cumberland closes his account of Goldsmith in the same vein of kindly tolerance: 'Goldsmith had the joy of finding his ingenious work...eccentricities, esteemed him for his genius and good qualities.' It is difficult to endure this tone of Cumberland's, but it should be remembered that posterity had...

...prudently administered to him by a guinea at a time. In the event he paid off the landlady's score, and redeemed the person of his friend from her embraces....eccentricities, esteemed him for his genius and good qualities." Such are the various accounts of the part played by Johnson in the publication of The Vicar of Wakefield....

...fields who had won greater success than he. Thus of his contemporary Goldsmith he writes that he " began to place a confidence in the resources of his talents which thenceforth enabled him to keep his station in society and cultivate the friendship of many eminent...

...time In the event he paid off the landlady's score, and redeemed the person of his friend from ber embraces. Goldsmith had the joy of finding his ingenious...confidence in the resources of his talents, which theijceferward enabled him to keup hi> station in society, and cultivate the friendship oi many eminent...