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Article ANECDOTES OF DR. GOLDSMITH. ← Page 4 of 7 →
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Anecdotes Of Dr. Goldsmith.
< Come , " says he , 'Met me tell yon , this-is no bad morning ' s work ; and now , my dear boy , if you are not better en-raged * I should be glad to enjoy-a Shoe-maker ' s holiday with . rou . " - " ° This , Shoe-maker s Holiday was a day 6 f " grer . t festivity to poor Goldsmith , and was spent in . the foifo-vinir in ; -ocer : t , maimer : Three or four of his intimate fi [ e :: ds reutiez veiled t hcham
--.: < . - bers to breakfast about tan -o . ' c ' . rc " :-: in the iri . oniltv . r ; at eleven they proceeded by the City-rond ; -. ;; : through the fields to ' TIighbury Barn to dinner ; about si" o ' -lr . ck r . i t ! : e evening ihcyV .: T ; ouriied to White Conduit House to drink tea ; a ;; d cbn & Iadid cbe evening by supping at the Grecian cr Temple Exck ; : u- >; o Conb ^ -licus-es . or at the Glebe in Fleet-sfreet . There was a ri ordinary cf two
__ very gc . dishes and pastry kept av Highbury Hum about this ' time ( five-arid twenty-years ago ) . ac iod . per- ' head , including a penny to the waiter , and the company gene-all y consisted of literary characters , a few Templars , and some citizens who had'left off ' trade . The ' whole expenc . es cf this day ' s fete never exceeded a crown , and ofcener from three-and-six-pence to four shillings , for which the the
party obtained good air ' and exercise , good-living ^ example ' o * f simple manners , and good conversation . Hear this , ye rising generation of Authors ! and instead of haunting taverns , and following tire luxurious tables of the grea-, where much useful time is exchanged for dissipated habits , ' learn from this frugal model" that your reasonable wantsand even
leasures-, , p , Jieiu a small compass ; and that whilst you are enjoying yourself upon this scale , you-are confirming your health , laying up a future source of independence , and -rescuing yourself from that contempt ' ( too generally true ) , which Roger Ascham has long since thrown upon wits , that " they live one knows not how , and die one cares not where . " ' ,
Poor Goldsmith himself in the latter part of his life felt the illreffects of not following this advice , for when he exchanged these simple habits for those of the great , he contracted their follies without their- fortunes or qualifications ; hence , when he ate or drank with them , tie contracted habits for expence which he could not individually afford—when he squandered his time with them , he squandered part of his income ; and when he ' lost his at
money play with them , he had not their talents to recover it at another opportunity . He had discernment to see all this , but had not the courage to break those fetters he had forged . The consequence was , he was obliged to run iu debt , and his debts rendered him , at times , so very melancholy and dejected , that I am sure he felt him-, self , at . least the last years of his lifea unhappy man
, very . The next-original work cur Author sat down to , after Ins " Deserted Village , " was his Comedy of'f She ' Stoops to Conquer . " He told one or two of his friendsj . " That he would try the dramatic taste of the Town once more , but that he would still hunt after nature and humour in whatever walks of life they were most conspicuous . " . This comedy was produced in 1772 , and notwith- ?
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Anecdotes Of Dr. Goldsmith.
< Come , " says he , 'Met me tell yon , this-is no bad morning ' s work ; and now , my dear boy , if you are not better en-raged * I should be glad to enjoy-a Shoe-maker ' s holiday with . rou . " - " ° This , Shoe-maker s Holiday was a day 6 f " grer . t festivity to poor Goldsmith , and was spent in . the foifo-vinir in ; -ocer : t , maimer : Three or four of his intimate fi [ e :: ds reutiez veiled t hcham
--.: < . - bers to breakfast about tan -o . ' c ' . rc " :-: in the iri . oniltv . r ; at eleven they proceeded by the City-rond ; -. ;; : through the fields to ' TIighbury Barn to dinner ; about si" o ' -lr . ck r . i t ! : e evening ihcyV .: T ; ouriied to White Conduit House to drink tea ; a ;; d cbn & Iadid cbe evening by supping at the Grecian cr Temple Exck ; : u- >; o Conb ^ -licus-es . or at the Glebe in Fleet-sfreet . There was a ri ordinary cf two
__ very gc . dishes and pastry kept av Highbury Hum about this ' time ( five-arid twenty-years ago ) . ac iod . per- ' head , including a penny to the waiter , and the company gene-all y consisted of literary characters , a few Templars , and some citizens who had'left off ' trade . The ' whole expenc . es cf this day ' s fete never exceeded a crown , and ofcener from three-and-six-pence to four shillings , for which the the
party obtained good air ' and exercise , good-living ^ example ' o * f simple manners , and good conversation . Hear this , ye rising generation of Authors ! and instead of haunting taverns , and following tire luxurious tables of the grea-, where much useful time is exchanged for dissipated habits , ' learn from this frugal model" that your reasonable wantsand even
leasures-, , p , Jieiu a small compass ; and that whilst you are enjoying yourself upon this scale , you-are confirming your health , laying up a future source of independence , and -rescuing yourself from that contempt ' ( too generally true ) , which Roger Ascham has long since thrown upon wits , that " they live one knows not how , and die one cares not where . " ' ,
Poor Goldsmith himself in the latter part of his life felt the illreffects of not following this advice , for when he exchanged these simple habits for those of the great , he contracted their follies without their- fortunes or qualifications ; hence , when he ate or drank with them , tie contracted habits for expence which he could not individually afford—when he squandered his time with them , he squandered part of his income ; and when he ' lost his at
money play with them , he had not their talents to recover it at another opportunity . He had discernment to see all this , but had not the courage to break those fetters he had forged . The consequence was , he was obliged to run iu debt , and his debts rendered him , at times , so very melancholy and dejected , that I am sure he felt him-, self , at . least the last years of his lifea unhappy man
, very . The next-original work cur Author sat down to , after Ins " Deserted Village , " was his Comedy of'f She ' Stoops to Conquer . " He told one or two of his friendsj . " That he would try the dramatic taste of the Town once more , but that he would still hunt after nature and humour in whatever walks of life they were most conspicuous . " . This comedy was produced in 1772 , and notwith- ?