Shakespeare's England . h may often hear its solemn,mournful tones. I heard them thus, and was thinkingof Dr. Johnsons tender words, when he first learnedthat Goldsmith was dead: Poor Goldy was wild—verywild—but he is so no more. The room in which hedied, a heart-broken man at only forty-six, was but alittle way from the spot where he ^ The noises ofFleet Street are heard there only as a distant birds chirp over him, and leaves flutter down uponhis tomb, and every breeze that sighs around the grayturrets of the ancient Temple breathes out his requiem. ^ No. 2 Brick Court, Mi
Shakespeare's England . h may often hear its solemn,mournful tones. I heard them thus, and was thinkingof Dr. Johnsons tender words, when he first learnedthat Goldsmith was dead: Poor Goldy was wild—verywild—but he is so no more. The room in which hedied, a heart-broken man at only forty-six, was but alittle way from the spot where he ^ The noises ofFleet Street are heard there only as a distant birds chirp over him, and leaves flutter down uponhis tomb, and every breeze that sighs around the grayturrets of the ancient Temple breathes out his requiem. ^ No. 2 Brick Court, Middle Temple. — In 1757-58 Goldsmith was em-ployed by a chemist, near Fish Street Hill. When he wrote his Inquiryinto the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe he was living in GreenArbour Court, over Break-neck Steps. At a lodging in Wine Office Court,Fleet Street, he wrote The Vicar of Wakefield. Afterwards hehad lodgingsat Canonbury House, Islington, and in 1764, in the Library Staircase of theInner
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