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the quarrels are kept judicioufly from our view. His defcrip- 

 tion of the occupations of the Swifs peafant is a mafter-piece ; 



Chearful at mora he wakes from Diort repofc, 

 Breads the keen air and carols as he goes ; 

 With patient angle trolls the finny deep, 

 Or drives the veut'rous ploughfliare to the ileep ; 

 Or feeks the den where fnow-tracks mark the way, 

 And drags the flruggling favage into day. 



No one fpecific circumftance of hardihood has efcaped him, and 

 fcarcely a lingle word occurs in the paffage which does not add 

 appropriate energy. The founds in the village evening and 

 the furniture of the ale-houfe deferve the fame praife. 



When Goldfmith has not Icifure to give a compleat defcrip- 

 tion, where by a few particulars a general propofition is to be 

 imprcffed, thofe which he feleds are always the beft fitted for 

 their purpofe. Thus where the vanity of the French is to be 

 exhibited Goldfmith fays, 



Here vanity afluines its pert grutiace 

 And trims her robes of frize with copper lace. 

 Here beggar pride defrauds her daily cheer 

 To boafl one fplendid banquet once a year. 



Where the pleafures of the luxurious are to be defcribed as 

 fickening into pain the particulars which our author's admirable 

 feledion fpecifies are the long pomp and the midnight mafquerade. 



But 



