THE LIFE AND TIMES OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. BY JOHN FORSTER. SIXTH EDITION: ILLUSTRATED. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: BICKERS & SON, 1, LEICESTER SQUARE. A DIFFICULT JOURNEY TO A SPLENDID TOMB. NEW-WRIT, NOR LIGHTLY WEIGHED, THAT STORY OLD THRO' OTHER THAN LONE WILD OR DESERT-GLOOM, ADVENTUROUS. O FRIEND WITH HEART AS GENTLE FOR DISTRESS, THE HAPPIEST TO THE UNHAPPIEST OF OUR KIND, THAT THERE IS FIERCER CROWDED MISERY IN GARRET-TOIL AND LONDON LONELINESS March, 1848. JOHN FORSTER. |