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Teighing againft the ingratitude of the world, and for intro- 

 ducing the mifery of the author : 



Sleep, like the world, his ready vifit pays 

 Where fortune fmiles ; the wretched he forfakes. 



Yet Young at the age at which he wrote his Night Thoughts 

 was the fame man in temper and intelledlual habits as when 

 fo many years before he had publiftied his Satires : exafperated 

 fomewhat at the world, which had not rewarded him exadly 

 in the mode and the degree which the au.thor had apportioned 

 to his own merits. He has ftill that high refpedt for birth 

 and rank which lead him to accumulate on himfelf all poflible 

 patronage by a feparate dedication of each of his Night 

 Thoughts : he gives up the dignified ferioufnefs of his work 

 to flatter, and almoft to invoke, a Dutchefs who had appeared at 

 a mafquerade in the charadler of Night : he confiders himfelf 

 ftill as a profefled author, and enumerates glory as one of his 

 inducements to write. The fame wit, the fame imagination, 

 the fame antithefis and epigrammatic point, appear in both thefe 

 great works ; and no other change feems to have taken place 

 in his difpofition, than the natural effedi of time on a temper, 

 which fhewed its difcontent in his early life by farcaftic ani- 

 madverllon, and in age by melancholy complaint. 



Dr. Goldfmith was a man the fingularities of whofe life 

 are well known ; and though they may not perhaps be difco- 

 vered on a fuperiicial view, the traces of them are laid fufE- 



( L 2 ) ciently 



