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TUB AUTHOll TO THK BfiADEK.

lie added with sound philosophy, "these are the thoughts
" and feelings which have reclaimed us from all the error* of
" life."

And why were they so enforced in that charming book, but
because the writer had undergone them all \ because tlwy had
reclaimed himself, not from the world's errors only, but also
from its suffering and care; and because his own life uud iwlvun-
tures had been the same chequered and beautiful romance of the
triumph of good over evil.

Though what is called worldly success, then, was not itttufiwtl
by Goldsmith, it may bo that the way to happincw was yet not
missed altogether. The sincere and sad biographer of Savage
might have profited by the example. II is own benefit he
had not successfully " eudoavourod," when the gloom of his wirly
life embittered life to the last, and the troublu lit' hntl cudum!
was made excuse for a sorrowful philosophy, find for nwttiwr*
that were an outrage to thu kindness of his htairi, Wluit Itwl
fallen to Johnson's lot;, fell not lens heavily to Gohl«tuilh'nj uf
the calamities to wlu'eh the literary life ia subject,

"Toll, envy, want, tl»e itfiton, ant! ihofpnt,¹*

none were spared to him : but they found,, and left him, gentle aittl
unspoiled | and though the discipline that thus taught him rlmriljr
entailed some social disadvantngo, by nnffigmul sijic-rrifv »ml
simplicity of heart he diffused every social rujwyiwnf, WStrti
his conduct least agreed with his writings., theim
did not fail him, What lie gninwl, wiw uthtra* giiiti ;
he lost, concerned himself only j he suffered pain, but
inflicted it; and it ia amazing to think how amal! an amuunt of
mere insensibility to otlicr people's opiniona would have
Doctor Goldsmith's position in the literary of hii clij.



	TUB AUTHOll TO THK BfiADEK. lie added with sound philosophy, "these are the thoughts " and feelings which have reclaimed us from all the error* of " life." And why were they so enforced in that charming book, but because the writer had undergone them all \ because tlwy had reclaimed himself, not from the world's errors only, but also from its suffering and care; and because his own life uud iwlvun- tures had been the same chequered and beautiful romance of the triumph of good over evil. Though what is called worldly success, then, was not itttufiwtl by Goldsmith, it may bo that the way to happincw was yet not missed altogether. The sincere and sad biographer of Savage might have profited by the example. II is own benefit he had not successfully " eudoavourod," when the gloom of his wirly life embittered life to the last, and the troublu lit' hntl cudum! was made excuse for a sorrowful philosophy, find for nwttiwr* that were an outrage to thu kindness of his htairi, Wluit Itwl fallen to Johnson's lot;, fell not lens heavily to Gohl«tuilh'nj uf the calamities to wlu'eh the literary life ia subject, "Toll, envy, want, tl»e itfiton, ant! ihofpnt,¹*

	none were spared to him : but they found,, and left him, gentle aittl unspoiled \| and though the discipline that thus taught him rlmriljr entailed some social disadvantngo, by nnffigmul sijic-rrifv »ml simplicity of heart he diffused every social rujwyiwnf, WStrti his conduct least agreed with his writings., theim did not fail him, What lie gninwl, wiw uthtra* giiiti ; he lost, concerned himself only j he suffered pain, but inflicted it; and it ia amazing to think how amal! an amuunt of mere insensibility to otlicr people's opiniona would have Doctor Goldsmith's position in the literary of hii clij.