The Works of Oliver Goldsmith (Volume 4); Biographies. Reviews. Animated Nature. Cock Lane Ghost. Vida's Game of Chess. Letters. Index (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THR LIFE RICHARD NASH, ESQ., LAT8 MASTER Of TIIK CEREMONIES AT BATH. EXTRACTED PRINCIPALLY HIS OKIOINAL PAPERS. Non ego pancis Offender maculis.?Hor. THE SECOND EDITION. London: Printed for J. Newbcry, in St. Paul's Churchyard; W. Frederick, at Bath; and G. Faulkener, in Dublin. 1762. chapter{Section 4This, the best of Goldsmith's Biographies, was published the year after Nash's death. It was at once popular, arid went through two editions in the same year in which it was published. To the second edition (it never reached a third), Goldsmith made many important additions. Yet strange to say none of these have been attended to by the editors of his Works. The text of l/iis reprint is that of the second edition, compared with the first. The text of previous editions has been that of a mutilated first impression. For thus admirable piece of biography (the Life of Nah could not have been in better hands), Goldsmith received " in full for the copy " fourteen guineas, as appears by his receipt to Newbery for that amount, now in Mr. Murray's keeping. THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR, RECORDER, ALDERMEN, COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BATH, ibis ftolunu IS HUMBLY INSCRIBED, TIIEIK MUST OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, THE EDITOK. chapter{Section 5ADVERTISEMENT.' We have the permission of George Seott, Esq. (who kindly undertook to settle the affairs of Mr. Nash, for the benefit of his family and creditors), t assure the public, that all the papers found in the custody of Mr. Xasli, which anyways respected his life, and were thought interesting to the public, were communicated to the Editor of this Volume; so that the reader wl at least have the satisfaction of perusing an account that is genuine, and not the work of imagina...