[v] TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. SIR, I AM happy in having your permission to inscribe to you this complete edition of the truly poetical works of your late ingenious friend OLIVER GOLDSMITH. They will prove a lafting monument of HIS GENIUS. Every lover of science muft deeply lament that this excellent writer, after long struggling with adverfity, finished his mortal career just as his reputation was firmly established, and he had acquired the friendship of SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, Dr. JOHNSON, MR. EDMUND BURKE, the DEAN of DERRY, MR. BEAUCLERC, and MR. CUMBERLAND, names which ADORN our age and nation. It is, Sir, being merely an eccho of the PUBLIC VOICE to celebrate your admirable productions, "In which to latest times the artift lives.” Had Had Dr. Goldfmith understood the art of painting, of which he modeftly declares himself ignorant, his pen would have done juftice to the merits of your pencil-he chofe a nobler theme, by declaring his ardent affection for the virtues of your heart. That you may long continue, Sir, the ornament of your country, and the delight of your friends, is the fincere wish of, CONTENT S TO VOLUME THE FIRST. PAGE LIFE of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B. Epitaph on Dr. Goldsmith, by W. Woty 1 lii Prologue, written and spoken by the Poet Laberius 31 Double Transformation, a tale A new Simile, in the manner of Swift Defcription of an Author's Bed-chamber 5% 10 133 Letter, addreffed to the Printer of the St. James's MEMOIR S OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS O F OLIVER GOLDSMITH, M.B.* THE life of a scholar,” Dr. Goldfmith has remarked, "feldom abounds "with adventure; his fame is acquired in * In the Memoirs, which were published in London, foon after the death of Dr. Goldfmith, were feveral mistakes, with refpect to our author's age, the time of his admiffion into the college of Dublin, &c. which are here corrected from accurate information. |