By the Rev. Chr. Wordsworth, M.A. 373 



own inventive genius and to the inspiration of Goldsmith's Vicar 

 of Wakefield. He would not have supposed that Goldsmith took 

 his idea for the Vicar of Wakefield from the Curate's Week if he 

 had known the priority of the former in its date of publication, as 

 we may now learn it from the Dictionary of National Biography 

 or from the biographers of Goldsmith. 



