illage._

175 "In May this year (1768), he lost his brother, the Rev. Henry
Goldsmith, for whom he had been unable to obtain preferment in the
Church....

"....To the curacy of Kilkenny West, the moderate stipend of which,
forty pounds a year, is sufficiently celebrated by his brother's
lines. It has been stated that Mr. Goldsmith added a school, which,
after having been held at more than one place in the vicinity, was
finally fixed at Lissoy. Here his talents and industry gave it
celebrity, and under his care the sons of many of the neighbouring
gentry received their education. A fever breaking out among the boys
about 1765, they dispersed for a time, but reassembling at Athlone,
he continued his scholastic labours there until the time of his
death, which happened, like that of his brother, about the
forty-fifth year of his age. He was a man of an excellent heart and
an amiable disposition."--PRIOR'S _Goldsmith_.

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart, untravell'd, fondly turns to thee:
Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

_The Traveller_.

176 "When Goldsmith died, half the unpaid bill he owed to Mr. William
Filby (amounting in all to 79_l_.) was for clothes supplied to this
nephew Hodson."--FORSTER'S _Goldsmith_, p. 520.

As this nephew Hodson ended his days (see the same page) "a
prosperous Irish gentleman", it is not unreasonable to wish that he
had cleared off Mr. Filby's bill.

177 "Poor fellow! He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor a turkey from a
goose, but when he saw it on the table."--CUMBERLAND'S _Memoirs_.

178 "These youthful follies, like the fermentation of liquors, often
disturb the mind only in order to its future refinement: a life
spent in phlegmatic apathy resembles those liquors which never
ferment and are consequently always muddy."--GOLDSMITH, _Memoir of
Voltaire_.

"He (Johnson) said Goldsmith was a plant that flowered late. There
appeared nothing remarkable about him when he was young."--BOSWELL.

179 "An 'inspired idiot', Goldsmith, hangs strangely about him [Johnson]
... Yet, on the whole, there is no evil in the 'gooseberry-fool',
but rather much good; of a finer, if of a weaker sort than
Johnson's;