143,
Goldsmith refers feelingly to 'the neglected author of the
Persian eclogues, which, however inaccurate, excel any in our
language.' He included four of them in 'The Beauties of English
Poesy', 1767, i. pp. 239-53.
l. 87. -----
"To husband out", etc. In the first edition this ran:--
My anxious day to husband near the close,
And keep life's flame from wasting by repose.
l. 96. -----
"Here to return--and die at home at last". Forster
compares a passage in 'The Citizen of the World', 1762, ii.
153:--'There is something so seducing in that spot in which we
first had existence, that nothing but it can please; whatever
vicissitudes we experience in life, however we toil, or
wheresoever we wander, our fatigued wishes still recur to home
for tranquillity, we long to die in that spot which gave us
birth, and in that pleasing expectation opiate every calamity.
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