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Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730-1774

"The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith"

Bunbury'
('Misc. Works', 1837).
Tablet erected in the Temple Church.
------ 1854 ------
'Goldsmith's Works', Cunningham's edition, published.
'Translation of Vida's 'Game of Chess''
('Works', 1854, vol. iv).
------ 1864 ------
January 5. J. H. Foley's statue placed in front of
Dublin University.



DESCRIPTIVE POEMS
THE TRAVELLER
OR
A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY
DEDICATION
TO THE REV. HENRY GOLDSMITH
DEAR SIR,
I am sensible that the friendship between us can acquire no new force
from the ceremonies of a Dedication; and perhaps it demands an excuse
thus to prefix your name to my attempts, which you decline giving with
your own. But as a part of this Poem was formerly written to you from
Switzerland, the whole can now, with propriety, be only inscribed to
you. It will also throw a light upon many parts of it, when the reader
understands, that it is addressed to a man, who, despising Fame and
Fortune, has retired early to Happiness and Obscurity, with an income of
forty pounds a year.


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