OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S LIFE AND TIMES. when at Leyden, by the accident of its sudden close 27. city. The desire too of extensive travel, his sister told Mr. Handcook, had been always a kind of passion witl* lliwu " Being of a philosophical turn," says his later associate and friend, Doctor Glover, " and at that time posses sing ft " body capable of sustaining every fatigue, and a heart not " easily terrified at danger, this ingenious, unfortunate man " became an enthusiast to the design he had fbraaaed °^ " seeing the manners of different countries."* A.»cl an entlmsiast to the same design, with precisely the same ixietms of indulging it, Holberg had also bean. " His ambition," 1 turn again to the Polite Learning, ef was not to be restrained* " or his thirst of knowledge satisfied, until he had seen the "world. Without'money, recommendations, or Mentis, he " undertook to set out upon his travels, and make tlie tour " of Europe on foot. A good voice, and a trifling sifcill in " music, were the only finances he laad to support an tuador- " taking so extensive; so he travelled by day, and at night " sung at the doors of peasants' Incuses to get Mxaself a " lodging. In this manner, while yet very young, I-Jolberg " passed through France, Germany, and Holland." t "With exactly the same resources, still also very young, Goldsmith quitted Leyden, bent upon the travel which his jTra/ireller has made immortal. It was in February, 1755. For the exact route lie -took, the nature of his adventures, and the course of though t they suggested, it is necessary to resort for the most part to his published writings. His letters of the time have perlslied, * Malone's edition of the Poem (1777), p. iii. Axid «eo the Annual Re