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Of his fondnefs for his own writings we have an unequivocal 

 proof in the frequency with which he borrows from himfelf. 

 Sentiments occur in his plays expreffed in the very fame words 

 as in his Vicar of Wakefield. The lengthening chain which he 

 drags in his Traveller, as he removes from his brother, conncded 

 the Chinefe philofopher with his friend in the Citizen of the 

 world. The excellent furniture with which he has decorated his 

 village ale-honfe belonged formerly to Scroggen the hackney au- 

 thor whom Goldfmith had before defcribed. The couplet in his 

 Deferted Village 



Along the lawn where fcattered hamlets rofe 

 Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repofe, 



is almofl; a tranfcript of the following in his Traveller 



And over fields where fcatter'd hamlets rofc 

 In barren folitary pomp repofe. 



And of that fublime paffage already quoted which defcribes the 

 horrors of the wcftern clime we have the original in the Tra- 

 veller, where 



the pilgrim ftrays 

 Through tangled forefts and through devious ways, 

 Where beads with man divided empire claim, 

 And the brown Indian marks with murd'rous aim. 

 There while above the giddy tempefl flies 

 And all around diftrefsful yells arife, &c. 



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