The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 101
r study, though excessive, did notestrange him from the pleasures of social life; hecarried into society the utmost courtesy and gaiety ofmanners: nevertheless, his natural timidity restrainedhim from intermeddling in public affairs ; and during GIBBON. [ENGLAND. the eight years which he sat in… … ■i.Janib jcutr- GOLDSMITH. This celebrated writer during the whole period ofhis life was an inexplicable enigma. He was at oncepoor and prodigal, a gamester and a moralist; simplein his manners, yet at times excessively proud : alter-nately benevolent and tender, morose and forbidding,his character…
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