endid
and beautiful results of his work; and the world--looking at these
with a constant admiration, and with a great and lenient love for
their author--is not anxious to know what he did with his guineas, or
whether the milkman was ever paid. "He had raised money and squandered
it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. BUT LET NOT
HIS FRAILTIES BE REMEMBERED: HE WAS A VERY GREAT MAN." This is
Johnson's wise summing up; and with it we may here take leave of
gentle Goldsmith.

THE END.

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ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS.

EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY.

_These Short Books are addressed to the general public with a view
both to stirring and satisfying an interest in literature and its
great topics in the minds of those who have to run as they read. An
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of our literature, and capable of intelligent curiosity as to their
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_HUME Professor Huxley._ [_Ready._

_BUNYAN James Anthony Froude._

_JOHNSON Leslie Stephen._ [_Ready._

_GOLDSMITH William Black._ [_Ready._

_MILTON Mark Pattison._

_WORDSWORTH Goldwin Smith._

_SWIFT John Morley._

_BURNS Principal Shairp._ [_Ready._

_SCOTT Richard H. Hutton._ [_Ready._

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"The new series opens well with Mr. Leslie Stephen's sketch
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"We have come across few writers who have had a clearer
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