Miscellaneous Works Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected By ... 2
Miscellaneous Works Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected By ... 2
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
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wai bom at Lucca, and died at Rome in 1626.] 348 CITIZEN OP THE WORLD. to afford Kimself a candle.* Bat Bentivoglio, poor BentiTOg^i chiefly demands our pity. His comedies will last with the Italian language : he dissipated a noble fortuae in acts of charity and benevolence ; but, falling into misery in his old age, was refused to be admitted into a hospital which he himself had erected. In Spain, it is said, the great Cervantes died of hunger ; and it is certain, that the famous OamoSns ended ...his days in a ho6- pitaLt If we turn to France, we shall there find even stronger in- stances of the ingratitude of the public. Vaugelas, one of the politest writers, and one of the honestest men of his time, was Burnamed the Owl, from his being obliged to keep within all day, and venture out only by night, through fear of his creditors. His last will is very remarkable. After having bequeathed all his worldly substance to the discharging his debts, he goes on thus : " but as there still may remain some creditors unpaid, even after all that I have shall have been disposed of, in such a case, it is my last will, that my body should be sold to the surgeons to the best advantage, and that the purchase should go to the discharging those debts which I owe to society ; so that if I could not, while living, at least when dead, I may be useful.
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