OLIVER GOLDSMITH S LIFE AND- TIMES.
1767, " saves something in domeatic expenses into the barg
,2Kt, ay, In subsequent serious expostulation with Mr. Hanw
some medical assumptions in his hook, the rovie\vei
aside his humble patched velvet of Bankside, and spec
though with nothing loss invented than the presi(
gold-headed cane : after which he doges with this pie
quiet good-sense. " Yet after all, why so violent an o
" against this devoted article of modern luxury ? 3
" nation that is rich hath had, and will have, its favc
u luxuries, Abridge tho people, in one, they gcnorall;
" into another; and tho Header may judges which -wi
" most conducive to either mental or bodily health ;
'* watery beverage, of a modern fine Lady, or the strong.
" and stronger waters, of hur great-grandmother ? " *

This paper had appeared in July, and in tho same mi:
there was also a olcvur notice from the numo hand of I)o~b
tranBlation of tha ih'Ht huok of Cardinal do Polemic's 3
poem of Anti'JjitctrthtH:] the poem whose ill BM>
stopped Gray in what he playfully called Inn Mauler To
Litcn'tina
| ("Do Prmdpiin (lo^ititmU"), Tho cardi
work I may mention an n huge mt»numont of inianp;
learning and not a little vanity; the talk of tha wor!
thoHO days, now forgotten. It WHH i,lu» work of a life ; a
hoawt of having been tn»m!t't,ed by Boihmu and altorei
Louis the Fuurtoontli j and WHH kept in nmmwenpt so 1
and so oftan, with iiuii'dimite self-complacency, pull
rocited from by tho author in a kind earnest of whai
world was one day to expoi't, that muite listoners with )
uionioriua (Le Clorc nnutug thwii) Ht«»lu its best passage^
publishocl tlieui for tho world's earlier benefit as their *
Thin tlrovu tho poor t'nrtlhwl at Itwt to preuuituro deln

* iVtntt/itt/ /iVivnr, \\n. fill-.I, h\\y 1757, f //«»/, 4'I, $ I-F»r/.w, ii,