The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a Life of the Poet As will be seen from the following "Advertisement," this edition of Goldsmith's Life and Poems was materially revised in 1866. At the request of the Publishers, it has now been again carefully examined. By the omission of much that has either become obsolete, or has been proved by recent investigations to he inaccurate, the Life has been abridged. Some of the footnotes have been withdrawn and others substituted; the quotations have been verified wherever practicable; and the style in general has been compressed. The Poems, in nearly every instance, have been collated anew with the original issues, although it has not been thought necessary to follow the variable and arbitrary punctuation of those issues. The brief notes to the Poems have also been corrected in places, and occasionally recast. 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.