LIFE OF GOLDSMITH. 



from spleen, and forcibly exhibits the prominent features of the several characters to which 

 it alludes. Dr. Johnson, as reported by Mr. Boswell, sums up his literary character in the 

 following concise manner. " Take him [Goldsmith] as a Poet, his Traveller is a very fine per- 

 formance, and so is his DeSerted Village, were it not sometimes too much the echo of his Tro- 

 veller. Whether we take him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as an historian, he stands in the 

 first class." 



