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England, for party he tells us is there the mod dangerous 

 enemy to poetry. He attempts to moderate the rage of all 

 parties by an endeavour to Ihew that patriotic boafting is the 

 fliame of reafon, fince nature and art afford equal happinefs 

 every where. The poet, mifled hy the different fenfes of the 

 fame word, never conlidered that poetical party might fubfift 

 though national fliould be deflroyed, or that party might in 

 any fingle country produce the woril effedls though that coun- 

 try and its neighbours were admitted to be equally happy. 

 But the reader may be fully fatisfied with any means of in- 

 trodu<3;ion to thofe admirable national characters which actual 

 infpeClion had made known to Goldfmith, and which his 

 poetic fancy could fo beautifully delineate. 



In his review of the Englifli charadter, under the influence 

 of vanity not yet fufBciently gratified with public notoriety, 

 and of liberality not limited by prudential experience, he deems 

 every man unhappy who is poor, and every man a flave who 

 is not born a legiflator. What he had flated in his Traveller 

 in his next poem he would not contradidl. He condemns the 

 luxury which was beyond his reach, and with the eye of a 

 poet he fees its effects in an imaginary depopulation. His 

 enthufiafm became confirmed in its belief — he had talents to 

 defcribe it pathetically, and by a procefs fimilar to thofe alge- 

 braic calculations which from falfe fuppofitions elicit the truth, 

 he has made it the occafion of introducing in his Deferted 

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