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The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.
The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith M B Author:Oliver Goldsmith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I shall send them open, in order that you may take copies or translations, as you are equally versed in the Dutch and Chinese languages. Dear friend, think of my... more » absence with regret, as I sincerely regret yours; even while I write, I lament our separation. Farewell. LETTER III. DESCRIPTION OF LONDON. LUXURY OF THE ENGLISH. ITS BENEFITS. THE FINE GENTLEMAN. THE FINE LADY. From Lien Chi Altanyi, to the care uf Fipsihi resident in Moscow; to be. forwarded by llm Russian caravan to Fum Hoam, first president of the Ceremonial Academy at Pehin in China. Think not, O thou guide of my youth, that absence can impair my respect, or interposing trackless deserts blot your reverend figure from my memory. The farther I travel I feel the )1ain of separation with stronger force; those ties that bind me to my native country and you, are still unbroken. By every remove, I only drag a greater length of chain."' Could I find aught worth transmitting from so remote a region as this to which I have wandered, I should gladly send it; but, instead of this, you must be contented with a renewal of my former professions, and an imperfect account of a people with whom I am as yet but superficially acquainted. The remarks of a man who has been but three days in the country can only be those obvious circumstances which force themselves upon the imagination. I consider myself here as a newly created being introduced into a new world ; every object strikes with wonder and surprise. The imagination, still unsated, seems the only (I) [A repetition of this beautiful image occurs in the 'Traveller'— " And drags at each remove a lengthening chain."] active principle of the mind. (The most trifling occurrences give pleasure till the gloss of novelty is worn away. When I have ceased to wonder, I m...« less