Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a Life The Anecdotes of Goldsmith which follow the Memoir, were collected by the Rev. John Mitford and appended to his Life Of' Goldsmith. He says: I should with reluctance have deprived my read ers Of' What information might be collected from them; but I am not sufficiently satisfied of the veracity Ofall to authorize their reception in the narrative of the Poet's Life. I have, therefore, collected them into an Appendix, Where they ap pear under the sanction of the narrators' names, who are alone responsible for their truth. 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.