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OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S LIFE AND TIMES. [BOOK n.
1757, where lie lived for the next few months, IB matter of
Et, 29, great uncertainty, But his letters wore addressed to the Temple Exchange eoffeo-house, near Temple-bar, where the " George" ho celebrates in ono of his essays took charge of them j the garret where ho wrote and, slept is supposed to have boon in ono of tho courts near the neighbouring Salisbury-fiquarc ; Poutor Kippia, one of tho Monthly IloviowcrB* " was improsKftl by Home faint rocol- " lection of his having nwtlo trauHlations from the French "among others of a tnlo from Voltairo;0 and tho recol- lection is made stronger by one of hia autographs formerly in J labor's collection, which purports to bo a receipt from Mr. lialph Griffiths for ten guineas, probably signed a day or two before ho left tho Monthly* for translation of a book •entitled Memoir* of my LnAy 11,* Another writer in tho MfMew, Doctor James Grainger, to whom hia residence at the sign of the Dmieiad had iniulo him known, and of whom the translation of Tibnltwt, tho Otfa to MnUtutk, the. ballad of Bft/an and Perwnet imtl tho poem of tho &ntjw> Canei have kopt it memory very ploiinrutt though very limited, made tho same coffee-house Ju» place of call, and often , naw Goldsmith thwut Th« niontlt in which ho separated from Griffiths was that in which Newbory'a Library Magazint lost Johimuu'B sorvlcos; but this ueoms the
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