GOLDSMITH'S LIFE AND TIMES.
II.
i W. " a representation of what Pindar now appears to be
At89. "though perhaps not what he appeared to tho States of
" Greece, when they rivalled each other in his applause,
" and when Tan himself was noon dancing to hia melody," *
Nothing could be happier than this lant allusion,
Of tho capabilities of dray's genius, misdirected as he
thus believed it to bo, it in witiHfiUjtoiy to mark Goldsmith's
strong appreciation. Ho apeak* of him, in tho eiuphatic
line of tho Cinmtrji Kltgy, an one whom the muse had
marked for her own. Ho graven that «Btich a genius"
Hlumld not do juried to itnelf, by tainting wore implicitly
to it,B own powers j mid ({Uult-H pasHagtm from tho Html to
support MH belief that thry tin* an great " OH anything of
" that gpceiuH of computation which IIHH hitherto appeared
" in our language, the Or/« of Drydim lihiwolf not oxwiptod."
Certainly to tho two exct«ptmiiH which, wliilo (JoltlHinitli
wrote, Gray ww doHcribing to Hurtl("my friendn tell me
" that the Odm do not 8um«ml, and writi* inti many topics of
" ooiiH«»latiou on that hcud: 1 have hwird of nobody but an
a actor and a dod,or i»f divinity tlmt prtifoBH their eateem for
them "), might with Homo rwwon lmv« bi-t^n iiddt-d the poor
monthly oritio of Tlio Duncind. I wwh I eouhl Hay, that, in
later and more nuwHHful tlityn, In? ruHi8t«d with pqiud good
tiiBtti nnd good KOUBU Uw inlltifiu'cj of JoluiHon'H'lmbituia
and Btninga dislike to »n«, <,f tho moat nmmblo men mid
dt'lightfttl writem tu bo met with in our Ktigliuh literature,