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This identity of phrafe on the recurrence of the fame fub- 

 jedts certainly indicates a fcantinefs in Goldfmith's vocabulary. 

 He has alfo favourite words and forms which fhew themfelves 

 in every page. V/e have the unfeeling train, and the lowly train, 

 and the vagrant train, and the harmlefs train, and the bufy train, 

 and the lovelieft train, and the gorgeous train, all in the Defcrted 

 Village. — We have within its firft feventeen lines the author 

 loitering over tbe gre.n of Auburn — and defolation faddening 

 all its green, and the healthful fports which formerly brightened 

 all its green. We have the friend crowned, and the glafs crowned, 

 and the board crowned — all very loofe and indefinite fignifica- 

 tions of the word. We have colloquial phrafes, Jit me down, 

 — once a year — many a time — times are altered. We have weak 

 words, adverbs and prcpofitions often filling up his verfes. — 

 All thefe are carelefs faults which a little attention might have 

 rectified, and founded perhaps in too great a love of fimplicity 

 and defire to be familiar. 



Goldsmith's didion both in verfe and profe is extremely 

 eafy — in fomc places perhaps to negligence. His Traveller begins 

 with feveral adjedives ftrung together, 



Remote, unfriended, melancholy, flow, 



while the fubftantive to which they belong does not appear 



until the feventh line. He is not ftudious of writing with 



the exadnefs of a grammarian, and therefore fometimes ufes 



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