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OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S UFI AND TIMES. in*** i.

1757. The coat is second-hand velvet, cast-off legacy of a more
a**- ²⁹« successful brother of the craft; the cane, the wig_t have served
more fortunate owners j and the humble practitioner of
Bankside is feeling the pulse of ft patient humblw titan him-
self, whose courteous entroaticH to bo allowed to relieve him
of the hat he keeps pressed over hi» heart, IMS more
courteously but firmly declines, Beneath tho hat is a largo
patch in the rusty velvet, which he thus coriewUs.

But ho cannot conceal the starvation which is again
impending. Even the poor printer's workman he atttnidH,
can see how hardly in that respect it goes with him ; urn!
finds courage ono day to Hiiggost that his master has been
kind to clever men before now, has visited Mr. Johnson in
spunging-hoitses, and might be serviceable to a poor
physician, For his master is no less than Mr. 8amuei
. Eichardson,'of Salisbury Court and Parson'E Green, printer,
and author of Clarissa, The hint is sueeoHnfulj and (Iaid-
smith, appointed reader and corrector to the prwss* tit
Salisbury Court,—admitted now and then oven to tho parhmr
of Richardson himself, and there grimly smiled upon by it«
chief literary ornament, great poet of the day, the author of
the Night Thont/htft^—mcitt hope in literature once more,
He begins a tragedy. With what modest expectation, with
what cheerful, simple-hearted deference to critical objection,
another of his Edinburgh fellow-students, Doctor Parr, will
relate to us.

* Boswoll's enumeration of tho employment* of M« advemlty in utrietty i»rrw»i»
" an far as it goes, As I once observed to Dr. Johnson, ho ditpatod Us
" through Europe, He then came to England, and wats employed io

" tlie capttdtios of usher to an academy, a corrector of the prea% a wirttwer, w«i
'.' a writer for a newspaper," ii. 189,

*h Not that Young's smiles were always "grim." He 1« said to haw bten v«ry
pleasant in ccmveraatiou; and 1 am glad to remember that bin pariah W
to the Rood-humour of tho poet for an assembly and a bowllng-gr«en.