CHAP, in.] OYERTFEES FKOH SMOLLETT AXD KEWBERY.

undiscriminating praisers of the past. Here the shabby 1760.
man in St. James's Park (Goldsmith, like Justice Woodcock, m32.
loved a vagabond) recounted his strolling adventures, with a
vivacity undisturbed by poverty ; and, with Ms Merry-
Andrew, Bajazet, and Wildair, laughed at Garrick in Ms
glory. Here journey was made to the Fountain in whose
waters sense and genius mingled, and by whose side the
traveller found Johnson and Gray (a pity it did not prove so !)
giving and receiving fame.* And here, above all, the poor,
hearty, wooden-legged beggar, first charmed the world with
a philosophy of content and cheerfulness wMch no mis-
fortune could subdue. TMs was he who had lost Ms leg
and the use of Ms hand, and had a wound in Ms breast
wMch was troublesome, and was obliged to beg, but with
these exceptions blessed Ms stars for knowing no reason to
complain: some had lost both legs and an eye, but thank
Heaven it was not so bad with him. TMs was he who
remarked that people might say tMs and that of being in gaol,
but when he was found guilty of being poor, and was sent to
Newgate, he found it as agreeable a place as ever he was in,
in all Ms life :t who fought the French in six pitched battles,
and verily believed, that, but for some good reason or other
Ms captain would have given Mm promotion and made him a
corporal: who was beaten cruelly by a boatswain, but the
boatswain did it without considering what he was about: who

* Another proof that Goldsmith had not yet surrendered his own judgment
to Johnson's in the matter of Gray. The four papers enumerated -will be found in
Miscett. Worlcs, i. 179, 229, 195, and ii. 461; the last having been transferred to
the Citizen of the World.

f " 0 liberty ! liberty ! liberty ! that is the property of every Englishman, and I
'' •will die in its defence ; I was afraid, however, that I should be indicted for a
" vagabond* once more, so did not much care to go into the country, but kept about
1' town, and did little jobs when I could get them. I was very happy in this manner
'' for some time ; till one evening, coming home from work, two men knocked me
'' down, and then desired me to-stand still. They belonged to a press-gang." ii. 465.trait of Lord Lyttelton