OLIYER GOLDSMITH 8 LIFE AND TIMES. [BOOK in.
1765. indignant denunciations of the tyrannies of wealth, sorrowful
JEt.37. and angry protestings that
" Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law,"
were still undisturbed. But words quietly vanished, here
and there3 that had spoken too plainly of the sordid past;
and no longer did the poet proclaim, in speaking of the great,
that, "inly satisfied," above their pomps he held his ragged
pride. The rags" went the way of the confession of
poverty in the Polite Learning ;* and of those hints of
humble habits which were common in the Busy Body and
the British Magazine, but are found no longer in Essays by
Mr. Goldsmith.
With that title, and the motto " Collecta revirescunt," a
three-shilling duodecimo volume of those re-published essays
was now issued by Mr. Griffin for himself and Mr. Newbery,
who each paid him ten guineas for liberty to offer this tribute
to the growing reputation of the Traveller. He corrected
expressions, as I have said; lifted Islington tea-gardens
into supper at Vauxhall; exalted the stroll in White conduit
garden to a walk in the park; and, in an amusing pre-
face, disclaimed any more ambitious motive than one of
this payment for the Traveller makes its appearance. Other items in it refer to
matters already described. "Settle Dr. Goldsmith's account) and give him credit
" for the following copies : 1. The Preface to the History of the World, and charge
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" of the Life of Christ, — Ditto, the Lives of the Fathers, — Ditto, the Lives of
"the Philosophers, — Correcting 4 vols. Brookes' Nat. History, — 79 Leaves
" of the History of England, — Copy of the Traveller, a Poem, 21Z. Lent in
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* " Perish the wish; for inly satisfied,
Above their pomps I hold my ragged pride,"
was replaced in the second edition by
" Ye powers of truth that bid my soul aspire,
Far from my bosom drive the low desire," &c.