Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith

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Excerpt from Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith: Comprising the Vicar of Wakefield, the Traveller, the Deserted Village, the Haunch of Venison, the Captivity, an Oratorio, Retaliation, Miscellaneous Poems, the Good-Natured Man, She Stoops to Conquer, and a Sketch of the Life of Oliver Goldsmith My children, the offspring of temperance, as they were educated without softness, so they were at once well-formed and healthy, my sons hardy and active, my daughters beautiful and blooming. When I stood in the midst of the little circle, which promised to be the support of my declining age, I could not avoid repeating the famous story of Count Abensberg, who, in Henry the Second's progress through Germany, while other courtiers came with their treasures, brought his thirty-two children, and presented them to his sovereign as the most valuable offering he ha (1 to bestow. In this manner, though I had but six, I considered them as a very valuable present. Made to my country, and consequently looked upon it as my debtor. Our eldest son was named George, after llis uncle, who left us ten thousand pounds. Our second child, a girl, I intended to call after her aunt Grissel but my wife, who during her pregnancy had been reading romances, insisted upon her being called Olivia. In less than another year we had another daughter, and now I was determined that Grissel should be her name, but a rich relation taking a fancy to stand godmother, the girl was by her directions called Sophia, so that we had two romantic names in the family, but I solemnly protest I had no hand in it. Moses was our next, and after an interval of twelve years we had two sons more. 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.