Excerpt from The Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Goldsmith: Containing All His Essays and Poems Here is not, perhaps, a more whimficai figure in nature, than a man of real fliy who afi'umes an air of impudence who, while his heart beats with' anxiety, (indies cafe, and efi'eets 'good humour. In this fituation, however, every unexperienced writer finds him felf. Impreffed with the terrors ofthe tribunal before which he ls going to apocar, his natural humouris turned to pertnels, and for real wit he' is obliged to fubf'titute vivacity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.