(Mangin's 'Essay on Light Reading', 1808, p. 142.)
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"The village preacher's modest mansion rose". 'The
Rev. Charles Goldsmith is allowed by all that knew him, to have
been faithfully represented by his son in the character of the
Village Preacher.' So writes his daughter, Catharine Hodson
('Percy Memoir', 1801, p. 3). Others, relying perhaps upon the
'forty pounds a year' of the Dedication to 'The Traveller', make
the poet's brother Henry the original; others, again, incline to
kindly Uncle Contarine ('vide Introduction'). But as Prior
justly says ('Life', 1837, ii. 249), 'the fact perhaps is that
he fixed upon no one individual, but borrowing like all good
poets and painters a little from each, drew the character by
their combination.'
l. 142. -----
"with forty pounds a year". Cf. Dedication to 'The
Traveller', p. 3, l. 14.
l. 145.
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