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III. VICAR OF Wakefield.

Johnson had now become one of Goldsmith's best friends and advisers. He knew all the weak points 5 of his character, but he knew also his merits'; and while he would rebuke him like a child, and rail11 at12 his errors 13 and follies 14, he would 15 16 suffer1 no one else to undervalue1 him. Goldsmith knew the soundness 18 of his judgment and his practical 20 benevolence, and often sought his counsel and aid

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the difficulties 24 into which his heedlessness? 25 was continually 26 plunging27 him. "I received one morning," says Johnson, "a message28 from poor he was 30 in great distress 31; and, as his power to come to me, begging 34 come to him as soon as possible.

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and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly 3 went as soon as I was dressed 37, and found that his landlady 38 had arrested3 him for his rent, at which+2 he was in a violent 43 passion. 4 4 I perceived that he had already changed 45 my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. 47 I put 48 the cork 49 into the bottle, desired he would be calm5°, and began to talk to him of52 the means by which he might 4 be extricated. 55 He then told me he had a novel 5 6 ready for the press 58, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit61, told the landlady I should soon return 62, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged 63 his rent, not without rating 64 his landlady in a high 65 tone for having

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used him so ill." The novel in question" 68 was the "Vicar69 of Wakefield;" the bookseller to whom Johnson sold it was Francis Newbery, nephew to1o John. Strange as it may seem, this captivating work, which has obtained and preserved an almost unrivalled 74 popularity in various languages, was so little appreciated by the bookseller, that he kept it by him78 for nearly two years! Washington Irving's Life of Goldsmith.

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I was once travelling in Calabria3, a land of wickeda people, who, I believe, hate every one, and particularly the French. The reason why would take long to tell you, suffice it to say, that they mortally hate us, so that one gets on13 very badly when one falls into their hands. I had for a companion1 a young man, with a face, my faith, like the gentleman that we saw at Rincy; you remember?? and better still perhaps. I don't say so to interest 22 you, but because it is a fact.2 3 In these mountains the roads are pre

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We found a whole family of colliers 44 at table 46; they immediately 47 invited us to join them; my young man did not wait to be pressed: there we were eating and drinking; he at least, for I was examining the place 3 and the appearance 4 of our hosts. 55 5 2 Our hosts had quite the look of colliers, but the house you would have taken57 for an arsenal; there was nothing but guns 59, pistols, swords, knives, and cutEverything displeased me, and I saw very well that I displeased them. My companion, on 63 the contrary, was quite one of the family; he laughed and

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