Indiana Gazette, Volume 1, Number 9, Vincennes, Knox County, 25 September 1804 — Page 4

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POETICAL ASLUM.

The Child of Sorrow's Tear. DENY, but JunJl tiintamaiJ never fco.uW.ili Icorn repays ; ru'irr.iK-ugh now lak your aid .v, n, a-as, c ba-pur Jays, n kid rr.e tor her osvn

iiiicu ihem with ttcr

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ffMt;.i trrT.?!1'? Vsrfh rrpV, .w-kir.J by feeing feaiM . 1 meidf-bcoU eye, ,. -r;?j i c:-j-1 I-n;Y,uaEe hca'd, ; ;V friend n y cadiert friend, .,- v. y inlcct ce to hear ; unv.ill.nj! tocfrnd, ,, nil i arce v. s: a -r.

'The good-natured Man, was acted at Covent-garden, with less approbation than it

deserved. Many parts of it exhibit the strongest indications of comic talents. There is, perhaps, no character on the stage more happily imaged and more highly finished than Croaker's. In the succeeding year he had the honorary professorship of Histry of the Royal Academy conferred on him. About this time he compiled a 'Roman history,' two vol. 8vo, He also was concerned in a periodical publication called 'The Gentle-

Jufl before hisdeathhe had formed a defign for executing 'An Uuniverfal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences a plan

rwhich met with no encour-

agemcnt. The poem or 'Retaliation was his la(t performance, which he did not live tofinifh. lt was written in anfwer to

fome illeberal attacks in a club of literary friends. When he had gone as far as the character of fir Jofliua Reynolds, he read it to his affociatcs. He however did not mean to

...nil.ssUr.il'j'.ritcnue h v'.fc or.cr taint, cities liurj, ; - :;; jr.y comrda'.r.t-

rr; 1 ! c ! I no:: Je:r

, v. no 3 m3;'J more t!c2r; r-'rl r nly fhed ! '. i r.t iktdt iter, "$ hT nv cup of jef , :':r;v c, i , r r, t-rr t , icfl, r: I 2'k. relitf,

the impropriety of that defign and mofl of his friends fent excufes- A few coffee-houfc acquaintance, rather fuddenly collected, attended his re mains to the grave. MORALIST. When neighbors dwell to

gether in peace, vifit in f i iendfhip, converfe tor ufeful improvement, or harmlcfs amufcmenc, take part in cachothers prolpcrity and adveifi ty, concur in the government of their families, are candid

pubhfh this poem, but to keep to excufe and careful ro con-

it, as he exprelTed himfclfto a cql each other's triial or acfriend, as a rod in pickle up- j cidental failings, lludious to

man's Journal,' in conjunction on a i mure occafon; but this! reform leal and dangerous

oc cation never prt fentcd it- faults ; whe n all abide in their kit: for a more awful peri- own bufmefs, .blelling will odwas snaroachinr. when ! :itrpnd lw v 1 l.m.rr ,fl i,.r.

kings as well as poets ccafe I cefs v. ill fmile on all their de-

froin their Icbours.'

Goldsmith's generosity,

with Dr.

Kenkirk, Jiickcr

Ihi If, cxc. w hich was focn difcontinued. 1 he editnat'on in wluchhe was held by the book Idlers

was k

'n a variety or works, lis

Av.z.r.? hoc!

i! rrcft.

:u c! :c: me 'rem die dorr ! )- v.r -t y tt mr iil t'tl wtir . . ! Oh ! tfjr.'i are peer-.-i I cf-. il ''in a tear.

n. iu

,,I!C,-r compn-y nHc (J e ilcn ' if . ii i . , .

ti e dcv.l

v 1 tor

mtMiimcnts were very conliuerbiw; and, had lie polkiTed ouiy a fujLill portion of prudence, he might hae enfured that i-jdependence, the want of which embittered his latter days, and contributed, in fome meaiure, to ihorten his life. 1 Sis next original publication was The Defcrted Vil1 itre,' which came out in the

at ti-is time lu great,

he was iulicitcd to er.gage i-t to call it proiulion, was

without bounus. lie was lo

humane in his disposition, that his last guinea was the general boundary of his munificence. Besides two or three poor authors always as pensioners, he had several widows and poor housekeepcrs, and

when he had no money to give, he sent the latter away with shirts or old cloathes, & sometimes with the whole

Iprinrr of 177c, and had a vc- content1; of his breaU'att- table,

ry rapid fa! he was by his j fjyii'g. after tk-cy were gone,

own contefnon four or five

years collecting materials, in

all his country excursions, for

with a lmile ot fathbetion,

' Now let me fuppofe 1 have ate a hearty brcakfafi, and

this poem, and was actually : am nothing out of pocket.'

engaged in the conduction of Hi liabit of gaming and geit during two yeais neral carclefsnefs with refpect In 1771, he prefixed a to nv.ney-matters, appear to

Life of Parnell.' to a new e I have been ins predominant

dition of his Poems on fcveral occafions,' by T. Davies,

Svo.

..'u! 'f.ry

i.i'l

His next original work was his comedy of i'hc Hoops to

u,t t f fi-nifii- ' lt rnnmt firrlir

hundred pound by this come-

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nr. f-'F DR. GOLDSMITH. CONTINUED. '"Vr 1767, our au ko hod now all'umcd V (, Doctor, made his '"! probably, his only - Awards obtaining a 1 ' nt tHablinimcnt. 'bn 'f Mr Mace. Gref

for of civil law, he

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lings. Though in the course of fourteen years, the produce of his pen is said to have amounted to more than eight thousand pounds, yet his income bore no proportion to his expences. He became embarrassed in his circumstan-

ces, and in conlequence, unca-

f.gns, their intcrcourfe will be Cufy, pleafriiit and virtuous, and a foundation will be laid for the happinefs of fuccceding generations. But if each i: bound up within himklf, and looks with unfeeling indiiference on all around idm, or beholds his inferior with contempt, and

his fupcrior with envy ; if evcry meeting is filled w ith impertincn: and angry controveil'y, and every vnir employed in tattlifg and back-bit-ing : if neighbour dcfn.es neirhbour, and eacii watches for advantage againfl another; if every brother w ill utterly fupplant, and every neighbour will vvaU in fl. aiders, one had better feek afolitary lodging in the wildernefs, and dwell alone in the earth.

1 1

d undidate to fuccced

" ' -t without fuccefs. 1 nf' hi jlrlt play,-

dy ; and though this year was

vnrv (nrrrC.fnl to him. bv.

'ihc lidtoryof Greece 2 fy, fretful and pcevih. 1 o vol. 4 'I he Life of Holing- this was added a violent HanbrokcV prefixed to a new e- gury, with w hich he wasfome

dition of 'The Patriot king,' years amtcted, wiucn wm, and other publications; yet other misfortunes, brought on

wliat uit!i Lis liberality lo ; a m"" i

pour sudors Purdon. U jcy. wi.emn i.c uu . -

I'ilkiiij'to'i. Ur. llillcrnun.iprf -K'"1 -

&c. and a.tdiculoiirandun-.lH- in ii.iwu.lc .c fortunate l.al.ic of earning, tatked March 1774. by a

with the arts of Inch he as , ne rvous levsr, wmui. ucing

verv little arouaii.tcd. he improperly irea . m...

found himfe lf at the end of it

confiderably in debt. Ikfideshis hifloriesof England, of Greece, and of Kome, he compiled ' An hiftory of the Earth and Animated Nature,' 8 vol. Svo. 1774, which procured for him more money than fame.

HUMOR. A gay young spark, of a deiitical turn, travelling in a Itage coach to London, forced his sentiments on the com-

!pany,by attempting to redi-

cule the scriptures ; and among other topics, made himself merry with the story of David and Goliah, strongly urging the impossibility of a youth like David, being able to throw a stone with sufficient force to sink into a giant's forehead. On this he appealed to the company, and in particular to a grave gentleman of the denomination called Quakers, who sat silent in the corner of the carriage,

' Indeed, friend,' replied he,

I do not think it at all improbable, efpecially if the PhilifUan's head was as foft as thine.' Sclcft Saitcnce. To be angry is to punifii thy-

ted in his diflblution the 4th of

April, 1774, after an illncfs of ten days, in the forty-third year of his 3ge. He was buried in the Temple Churchyard, on the 9th of the fame month. A pompous funeral rytmAo, but a flicht in-

aion into his affairs nicwedlli'lftl'.c fault ct anoUier.