Deferted Village, bid fair to claim a place among the moft finished pieces in the English language. As different accounts have been given of this ingenious man, the writer of thefe anecdotes cannot conclude without declaring, that they are all founded upon facts, and collected by one who lived with him upon the most friendly footing for a great number of years, and who never felt any forrow more fenfibly than that which was occafioned by his death. DR. ADIEU, O N THE DEA T H O F GOLDSMITH. BY W. WOT Y. DIEU, fweet bard! to each fine feeling true, Thy virtues many, and thy foibles few ; Thofe form'd to charm e'en vicious minds,-and thefe With harmless mirth the focial foul to please. Another's wce thy heart could always melt; None gave more free,-for none more deeply felt. A PROLOGUE, WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LA BERIUS, A Roman Knight whom CESAR forced upon the Stage. PRESERVED BY MACROBIUS. * WHAT! no way left to fhun the inglorious stage, And fave from infamy my finking age. ; Scarce half-alive, opprefs'd with many a year, * This tranflation was firft printed in one of our Author's earliest works, The prefent ftate of learning in Europe, 12mos 1759. The old buffoon will fit my name as well; THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION. A TALE. SECLUDED ECLUDED from domeftic ftrife, Made him the happiest man alive; Such pleasures unallay'd with care, O had the archer ne'er come down To ravage in a country town! 5 10 15 |