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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online -at <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a>. If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: The Vicar of Wakefield</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Oliver Goldsmith</div> -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: June, 2001 [eBook #2667]<br /> -[Most recently updated: March 11, 2022]</div> -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Character set encoding: UTF-8</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: Charles J. Griep and David Widger</div> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD ***</div> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 2667 ***</div> <h1>The Vicar of Wakefield</h1> @@ -99,11 +79,11 @@ country where you are located before using this eBook. <i>Sperate miseri, cavete felices</i> </p> -<hr /> +<hr > <h2>Contents</h2> -<table summary="" style=""> +<table> <tr> <td> <a href="#pref01">ADVERTISEMENT</a></td> @@ -239,11 +219,11 @@ country where you are located before using this eBook. </table> -<hr /> +<hr > <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="pref01"></a>ADVERTISEMENT</h2> +<h2><a id="pref01"></a>ADVERTISEMENT</h2> <p> There are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said @@ -263,167 +243,167 @@ laugh at one whose chief stores of comfort are drawn from futurity. O<small>LIVER</small> G<small>OLDSMITH</small>. </p> -<hr /> +<hr > <h2>Detailed contents</h2> <p> -<a href="#chap01">Chapter I.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap01">Chapter I.</a><br> The description of the family of Wakefield; in which a kindred likeness prevails as well of minds as of persons </p> <p> -<a href="#chap02">Chapter II.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap02">Chapter II.</a><br> Family misfortunes. The loss of fortune only serves to increase the pride of the worthy </p> <p> -<a href="#chap03">Chapter III.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap03">Chapter III.</a><br> A migration. The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own procuring </p> <p> -<a href="#chap04">Chapter IV.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap04">Chapter IV.</a><br> A proof that even the humblest fortune may grant happiness, which depends not on circumstance, but constitution </p> <p> -<a href="#chap05">Chapter V.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap05">Chapter V.</a><br> A new and great acquaintance introduced. What we place most hopes upon generally proves most fatal </p> <p> -<a href="#chap06">Chapter VI.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap06">Chapter VI.</a><br> The happiness of a country fire-side </p> <p> -<a href="#chap07">Chapter VII.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap07">Chapter VII.</a><br> A town wit described. The dullest fellows may learn to be comical for a night or two </p> <p> -<a href="#chap08">Chapter VIII.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap08">Chapter VIII.</a><br> An amour, which promises little good fortune, yet may be productive of much </p> <p> -<a href="#chap09">Chapter IX.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap09">Chapter IX.</a><br> Two ladies of great distinction introduced. Superior finery ever seems to confer superior breeding </p> <p> -<a href="#chap10">Chapter X.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap10">Chapter X.</a><br> The family endeavours to cope with their betters. The miseries of the poor when they attempt to appear above their circumstances </p> <p> -<a href="#chap11">Chapter XI.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap11">Chapter XI.</a><br> The family still resolve to hold up their heads </p> <p> -<a href="#chap12">Chapter XII.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap12">Chapter XII.</a><br> Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of Wakefield. Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities </p> <p> -<a href="#chap13">Chapter XIII.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap13">Chapter XIII.</a><br> Mr Burchell is found to be an enemy; for he has the confidence to give disagreeable advice </p> <p> -<a href="#chap14">Chapter XIV.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap14">Chapter XIV.</a><br> Fresh mortifications, or a demonstration that seeming calamities may be real blessings </p> <p> -<a href="#chap15">Chapter XV.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap15">Chapter XV.</a><br> All Mr Burchell’s villainy at once detected. The folly of being-over-wise </p> <p> -<a href="#chap16">Chapter XVI.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap16">Chapter XVI.</a><br> The Family use art, which is opposed with still greater </p> <p> -<a href="#chap17">Chapter XVII.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap17">Chapter XVII.</a><br> Scarce any virtue found to resist the power of long and pleasing temptation </p> <p> -<a href="#chap18">Chapter XVIII.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap18">Chapter XVIII.</a><br> The pursuit of a father to reclaim a lost child to virtue </p> <p> -<a href="#chap19">Chapter XIX.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap19">Chapter XIX.</a><br> The description of a Person discontented with the present government, and apprehensive of the loss of our liberties </p> <p> -<a href="#chap20">Chapter XX.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap20">Chapter XX.</a><br> The history of a philosophic vagabond, pursuing novelty, but losing content </p> <p> -<a href="#chap21">Chapter XXI.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap21">Chapter XXI.</a><br> The short continuance of friendship among the vicious, which is coeval only with mutual satisfaction </p> <p> -<a href="#chap22">Chapter XXII.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap22">Chapter XXII.</a><br> Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at bottom </p> <p> -<a href="#chap23">Chapter XXIII.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap23">Chapter XXIII.</a><br> None but the guilty can be long and completely miserable </p> <p> -<a href="#chap24">Chapter XXIV.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap24">Chapter XXIV.</a><br> Fresh calamities </p> <p> -<a href="#chap25">Chapter XXV.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap25">Chapter XXV.</a><br> No situation, however wretched it seems, but has some sort of comfort attending it </p> <p> -<a href="#chap26">Chapter XXVI.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap26">Chapter XXVI.</a><br> A reformation in the gaol. To make laws complete, they should reward as well as punish </p> <p> -<a href="#chap27">Chapter XXVII.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap27">Chapter XXVII.</a><br> The same subject continued </p> <p> -<a href="#chap28">Chapter XXVIII.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap28">Chapter XXVIII.</a><br> Happiness and misery rather the result of prudence than of virtue in this life. Temporal evils or felicities being regarded by heaven as things merely in themselves trifling and unworthy its care in the distribution </p> <p> -<a href="#chap29">Chapter XXIX.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap29">Chapter XXIX.</a><br> The equal dealings of providence demonstrated with regard to the happy and the miserable here below. That from the nature of pleasure and pain, the wretched must be repaid the balance of their sufferings in the life hereafter </p> <p> -<a href="#chap30">Chapter XXX.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap30">Chapter XXX.</a><br> Happier prospects begin to appear. Let us be inflexible, and fortune will at last change in our favour </p> <p> -<a href="#chap31">Chapter XXXI.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap31">Chapter XXXI.</a><br> Former benevolence now repaid with unexpected interest </p> <p> -<a href="#chap32">Chapter XXXII.</a><br/> +<a href="#chap32">Chapter XXXII.</a><br> The Conclusion </p> @@ -431,7 +411,7 @@ The Conclusion <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap01"></a>CHAPTER I.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap01"></a>CHAPTER I.</h2> <p class="letter"> The description of the family of Wakefield; in which a kindred likeness @@ -554,7 +534,7 @@ inoffensive. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap02"></a>CHAPTER II.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap02"></a>CHAPTER II.</h2> <p class="letter"> Family misfortunes. The loss of fortune only serves to encrease the pride of @@ -671,7 +651,7 @@ us at seventy-two. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap03"></a>CHAPTER III.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap03"></a>CHAPTER III.</h2> <p class="letter"> A migration. The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at @@ -873,7 +853,7 @@ happy. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap04"></a>CHAPTER IV.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap04"></a>CHAPTER IV.</h2> <p class="letter"> A proof that even the humblest fortune may grant happiness, which depends not @@ -931,7 +911,7 @@ philosophical arguments between my son and me. <p> As we rose with the sun, so we never pursued our labours after it was gone -down, but returned home to the expecting family; where smiling looks, a treat +down, but returned home to the expecting family; where smiling looks, a neat hearth, and pleasant fire, were prepared for our reception. Nor were we without guests: sometimes farmer Flamborough, our talkative neighbour, and often the blind piper, would pay us a visit, and taste our gooseberry wine; for the @@ -995,7 +975,7 @@ still more satisfactory, the gowns seemed improved by this curtailing. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap05"></a>CHAPTER V.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap05"></a>CHAPTER V.</h2> <p class="letter"> A new and great acquaintance introduced. What we place most hopes upon, @@ -1111,7 +1091,7 @@ centinel. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap06"></a>CHAPTER VI.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap06"></a>CHAPTER VI.</h2> <p class="letter"> The happiness of a country fire-side. @@ -1225,7 +1205,7 @@ begin another. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap07"></a>CHAPTER VII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap07"></a>CHAPTER VII.</h2> <p class="letter"> A town wit described. The dullest fellows may learn to be comical for a night @@ -1372,7 +1352,7 @@ converts, and so go help your mother to make the gooseberry-pye.’ <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap08"></a>CHAPTER VIII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap08"></a>CHAPTER VIII.</h2> <p class="letter"> An amour, which promises little good fortune, yet may be productive of much. @@ -1425,199 +1405,199 @@ A BALLAD. </p> <p class="poem"> -‘Turn, gentle hermit of the dale,<br/> - And guide my lonely way,<br/> -To where yon taper cheers the vale,<br/> - With hospitable ray.<br/> -<br/> -‘For here forlorn and lost I tread,<br/> - With fainting steps and slow;<br/> -Where wilds immeasurably spread,<br/> - Seem lengthening as I go.’<br/> -<br/> -‘Forbear, my son,’ the hermit cries,<br/> - ‘To tempt the dangerous gloom;<br/> -For yonder faithless phantom flies<br/> - To lure thee to thy doom.<br/> -<br/> -‘Here to the houseless child of want,<br/> - My door is open still;<br/> -And tho’ my portion is but scant,<br/> - I give it with good will.<br/> -<br/> -‘Then turn to-night, and freely share<br/> - Whate’er my cell bestows;<br/> -My rushy couch, and frugal fare,<br/> - My blessing and repose.<br/> -<br/> -‘No flocks that range the valley free,<br/> - To slaughter I condemn:<br/> -Taught by that power that pities me,<br/> - I learn to pity them.<br/> -<br/> -‘But from the mountain’s grassy side,<br/> - A guiltless feast I bring;<br/> -A scrip with herbs and fruits supply’d,<br/> - And water from the spring.<br/> -<br/> -‘Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego;<br/> - All earth-born cares are wrong:<br/> -Man wants but little here below,<br/> - Nor wants that little long.’<br/> -<br/> -Soft as the dew from heav’n descends,<br/> - His gentle accents fell:<br/> -The modest stranger lowly bends,<br/> - And follows to the cell.<br/> -<br/> -Far in a wilderness obscure<br/> - The lonely mansion lay;<br/> -A refuge to the neighbouring poor,<br/> - And strangers led astray.<br/> -<br/> -No stores beneath its humble thatch<br/> - Requir’d a master’s care;<br/> -The wicket opening with a latch,<br/> - Receiv’d the harmless pair.<br/> -<br/> -And now when busy crowds retire<br/> - To take their evening rest,<br/> -The hermit trimm’d his little fire,<br/> - And cheer’d his pensive guest:<br/> -<br/> -And spread his vegetable store,<br/> - And gayly prest, and smil’d;<br/> -And skill’d in legendary lore,<br/> - The lingering hours beguil’d.<br/> -<br/> -Around in sympathetic mirth<br/> - Its tricks the kitten tries,<br/> -The cricket chirrups in the hearth;<br/> - The crackling faggot flies.<br/> -<br/> -But nothing could a charm impart<br/> - To sooth the stranger’s woe;<br/> -For grief was heavy at his heart,<br/> - And tears began to flow.<br/> -<br/> -His rising cares the hermit spy’d,<br/> - With answering care opprest:<br/> -‘And whence, unhappy youth,’ he cry’d,<br/> - ‘The sorrows of thy breast?<br/> -<br/> -‘From better habitations spurn’d,<br/> - Reluctant dost thou rove;<br/> -Or grieve for friendship unreturn’d,<br/> - Or unregarded love?<br/> -<br/> -‘Alas! the joys that fortune brings,<br/> - Are trifling and decay;<br/> -And those who prize the paltry things,<br/> - More trifling still than they.<br/> -<br/> -‘And what is friendship but a name,<br/> - A charm that lulls to sleep;<br/> -A shade that follows wealth or fame,<br/> - But leaves the wretch to weep?<br/> -<br/> -‘And love is still an emptier sound,<br/> - The modern fair one’s jest:<br/> -On earth unseen, or only found<br/> - To warm the turtle’s nest.<br/> -<br/> -‘For shame fond youth thy sorrows hush<br/> - And spurn the sex,’ he said:<br/> -But while he spoke a rising blush<br/> - His love-lorn guest betray’d.<br/> -<br/> -Surpriz’d he sees new beauties rise,<br/> - Swift mantling to the view;<br/> -Like colours o’er the morning skies,<br/> - As bright, as transient too.<br/> -<br/> -The bashful look, the rising breast,<br/> - Alternate spread alarms:<br/> -The lovely stranger stands confest<br/> - A maid in all her charms.<br/> -<br/> -‘And, ah, forgive a stranger rude,<br/> - A wretch forlorn,’ she cry’d;<br/> -‘Whose feet unhallowed thus intrude<br/> - Where heaven and you reside.<br/> -<br/> -‘But let a maid thy pity share,<br/> - Whom love has taught to stray;<br/> -Who seeks for rest, but finds despair<br/> - Companion of her way.<br/> -<br/> -‘My father liv’d beside the Tyne,<br/> - A wealthy Lord was he;<br/> -And all his wealth was mark’d as mine,<br/> - He had but only me.<br/> -<br/> -‘To win me from his tender arms,<br/> - Unnumber’d suitors came;<br/> -Who prais’d me for imputed charms,<br/> - And felt or feign’d a flame.<br/> -<br/> -‘Each hour a mercenary crowd,<br/> - With richest proffers strove:<br/> -Among the rest young Edwin bow’d,<br/> - But never talk’d of love.<br/> -<br/> -‘In humble simplest habit clad,<br/> - No wealth nor power had he;<br/> -Wisdom and worth were all he had,<br/> - But these were all to me.<br/> -<br/> -‘The blossom opening to the day,<br/> - The dews of heaven refin’d,<br/> -Could nought of purity display,<br/> - To emulate his mind.<br/> -<br/> -‘The dew, the blossom on the tree,<br/> - With charms inconstant shine;<br/> -Their charms were his, but woe to me,<br/> - Their constancy was mine.<br/> -<br/> -‘For still I try’d each fickle art,<br/> - Importunate and vain;<br/> -And while his passion touch’d my heart,<br/> - I triumph’d in his pain.<br/> -<br/> -‘Till quite dejected with my scorn,<br/> - He left me to my pride;<br/> -And sought a solitude forlorn,<br/> - In secret where he died.<br/> -<br/> -‘But mine the sorrow, mine the fault,<br/> - And well my life shall pay;<br/> -I’ll seek the solitude he sought,<br/> - And stretch me where he lay.<br/> -<br/> -‘And there forlorn despairing hid,<br/> - I’ll lay me down and die:<br/> -‘Twas so for me that Edwin did,<br/> - And so for him will I.’<br/> -<br/> -‘Forbid it heaven!’ the hermit cry’d,<br/> - And clasp’d her to his breast:<br/> -The wondering fair one turn’d to chide,<br/> - ‘Twas Edwin’s self that prest.<br/> -<br/> -‘Turn, Angelina, ever dear,<br/> - My charmer, turn to see,<br/> -Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here,<br/> - Restor’d to love and thee.<br/> -<br/> -‘Thus let me hold thee to my heart,<br/> - And ev’ry care resign:<br/> -And shall we never, never part,<br/> - My life,—my all that’s mine.<br/> -<br/> -‘No, never, from this hour to part,<br/> - We’ll live and love so true;<br/> -The sigh that tends thy constant heart,<br/> +‘Turn, gentle hermit of the dale,<br> + And guide my lonely way,<br> +To where yon taper cheers the vale,<br> + With hospitable ray.<br> +<br> +‘For here forlorn and lost I tread,<br> + With fainting steps and slow;<br> +Where wilds immeasurably spread,<br> + Seem lengthening as I go.’<br> +<br> +‘Forbear, my son,’ the hermit cries,<br> + ‘To tempt the dangerous gloom;<br> +For yonder faithless phantom flies<br> + To lure thee to thy doom.<br> +<br> +‘Here to the houseless child of want,<br> + My door is open still;<br> +And tho’ my portion is but scant,<br> + I give it with good will.<br> +<br> +‘Then turn to-night, and freely share<br> + Whate’er my cell bestows;<br> +My rushy couch, and frugal fare,<br> + My blessing and repose.<br> +<br> +‘No flocks that range the valley free,<br> + To slaughter I condemn:<br> +Taught by that power that pities me,<br> + I learn to pity them.<br> +<br> +‘But from the mountain’s grassy side,<br> + A guiltless feast I bring;<br> +A scrip with herbs and fruits supply’d,<br> + And water from the spring.<br> +<br> +‘Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego;<br> + All earth-born cares are wrong:<br> +Man wants but little here below,<br> + Nor wants that little long.’<br> +<br> +Soft as the dew from heav’n descends,<br> + His gentle accents fell:<br> +The modest stranger lowly bends,<br> + And follows to the cell.<br> +<br> +Far in a wilderness obscure<br> + The lonely mansion lay;<br> +A refuge to the neighbouring poor,<br> + And strangers led astray.<br> +<br> +No stores beneath its humble thatch<br> + Requir’d a master’s care;<br> +The wicket opening with a latch,<br> + Receiv’d the harmless pair.<br> +<br> +And now when busy crowds retire<br> + To take their evening rest,<br> +The hermit trimm’d his little fire,<br> + And cheer’d his pensive guest:<br> +<br> +And spread his vegetable store,<br> + And gayly prest, and smil’d;<br> +And skill’d in legendary lore,<br> + The lingering hours beguil’d.<br> +<br> +Around in sympathetic mirth<br> + Its tricks the kitten tries,<br> +The cricket chirrups in the hearth;<br> + The crackling faggot flies.<br> +<br> +But nothing could a charm impart<br> + To sooth the stranger’s woe;<br> +For grief was heavy at his heart,<br> + And tears began to flow.<br> +<br> +His rising cares the hermit spy’d,<br> + With answering care opprest:<br> +‘And whence, unhappy youth,’ he cry’d,<br> + ‘The sorrows of thy breast?<br> +<br> +‘From better habitations spurn’d,<br> + Reluctant dost thou rove;<br> +Or grieve for friendship unreturn’d,<br> + Or unregarded love?<br> +<br> +‘Alas! the joys that fortune brings,<br> + Are trifling and decay;<br> +And those who prize the paltry things,<br> + More trifling still than they.<br> +<br> +‘And what is friendship but a name,<br> + A charm that lulls to sleep;<br> +A shade that follows wealth or fame,<br> + But leaves the wretch to weep?<br> +<br> +‘And love is still an emptier sound,<br> + The modern fair one’s jest:<br> +On earth unseen, or only found<br> + To warm the turtle’s nest.<br> +<br> +‘For shame fond youth thy sorrows hush<br> + And spurn the sex,’ he said:<br> +But while he spoke a rising blush<br> + His love-lorn guest betray’d.<br> +<br> +Surpriz’d he sees new beauties rise,<br> + Swift mantling to the view;<br> +Like colours o’er the morning skies,<br> + As bright, as transient too.<br> +<br> +The bashful look, the rising breast,<br> + Alternate spread alarms:<br> +The lovely stranger stands confest<br> + A maid in all her charms.<br> +<br> +‘And, ah, forgive a stranger rude,<br> + A wretch forlorn,’ she cry’d;<br> +‘Whose feet unhallowed thus intrude<br> + Where heaven and you reside.<br> +<br> +‘But let a maid thy pity share,<br> + Whom love has taught to stray;<br> +Who seeks for rest, but finds despair<br> + Companion of her way.<br> +<br> +‘My father liv’d beside the Tyne,<br> + A wealthy Lord was he;<br> +And all his wealth was mark’d as mine,<br> + He had but only me.<br> +<br> +‘To win me from his tender arms,<br> + Unnumber’d suitors came;<br> +Who prais’d me for imputed charms,<br> + And felt or feign’d a flame.<br> +<br> +‘Each hour a mercenary crowd,<br> + With richest proffers strove:<br> +Among the rest young Edwin bow’d,<br> + But never talk’d of love.<br> +<br> +‘In humble simplest habit clad,<br> + No wealth nor power had he;<br> +Wisdom and worth were all he had,<br> + But these were all to me.<br> +<br> +‘The blossom opening to the day,<br> + The dews of heaven refin’d,<br> +Could nought of purity display,<br> + To emulate his mind.<br> +<br> +‘The dew, the blossom on the tree,<br> + With charms inconstant shine;<br> +Their charms were his, but woe to me,<br> + Their constancy was mine.<br> +<br> +‘For still I try’d each fickle art,<br> + Importunate and vain;<br> +And while his passion touch’d my heart,<br> + I triumph’d in his pain.<br> +<br> +‘Till quite dejected with my scorn,<br> + He left me to my pride;<br> +And sought a solitude forlorn,<br> + In secret where he died.<br> +<br> +‘But mine the sorrow, mine the fault,<br> + And well my life shall pay;<br> +I’ll seek the solitude he sought,<br> + And stretch me where he lay.<br> +<br> +‘And there forlorn despairing hid,<br> + I’ll lay me down and die:<br> +‘Twas so for me that Edwin did,<br> + And so for him will I.’<br> +<br> +‘Forbid it heaven!’ the hermit cry’d,<br> + And clasp’d her to his breast:<br> +The wondering fair one turn’d to chide,<br> + ‘Twas Edwin’s self that prest.<br> +<br> +‘Turn, Angelina, ever dear,<br> + My charmer, turn to see,<br> +Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here,<br> + Restor’d to love and thee.<br> +<br> +‘Thus let me hold thee to my heart,<br> + And ev’ry care resign:<br> +And shall we never, never part,<br> + My life,—my all that’s mine.<br> +<br> +‘No, never, from this hour to part,<br> + We’ll live and love so true;<br> +The sigh that tends thy constant heart,<br> Shall break thy Edwin’s too.’ </p> @@ -1661,7 +1641,7 @@ are furnished with different abilities, adapted for mutual inspection. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap09"></a>CHAPTER IX.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap09"></a>CHAPTER IX.</h2> <p class="letter"> Two ladies of great distinction introduced. Superior finery ever seems to @@ -1766,7 +1746,7 @@ the whole day ensuing. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap10"></a>CHAPTER X.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap10"></a>CHAPTER X.</h2> <p class="letter"> The family endeavours to cope with their betters. The miseries of the poor when @@ -1897,7 +1877,7 @@ opportunities of future triumph, and teach my daughters more humility. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap11"></a>CHAPTER XI.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap11"></a>CHAPTER XI.</h2> <p class="letter"> The family still resolve to hold up their heads. @@ -1958,12 +1938,15 @@ greater fancy to her sister. They supported the conversation between themselves, while my daughters sate silent, admiring their exalted breeding. But as every reader, however beggarly himself, is fond of high-lived dialogues, with anecdotes of Lords, Ladies, and Knights of the Garter, I must beg leave to -give him the concluding part of the present conversation. ‘All that I -know of the matter,’ cried Miss Skeggs, ‘is this, that it may be +give him the concluding part of the present conversation.</p> + +<<p>‘All that I know of the matter,’ cried Miss Skeggs, ‘is this, that it may be true, or it may not be true: but this I can assure your Ladyship, that the whole rout was in amaze; his Lordship turned all manner of colours, my Lady -fell into a sound; but Sir Tomkyn, drawing his sword, swore he was her’s -to the last drop of his blood.’ ‘Well,’ replied our Peeress, +fell into a swoon; but Sir Tomkyn, drawing his sword, swore he was her’s +to the last drop of his blood.’</p> + +<p>‘Well,’ replied our Peeress, ‘this I can say, that the Dutchess never told me a syllable of the matter, and I believe her Grace would keep nothing a secret from me. This you may depend upon as fact, that the next morning my Lord Duke cried out three @@ -2075,7 +2058,7 @@ our petition. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap12"></a>CHAPTER XII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap12"></a>CHAPTER XII.</h2> <p class="letter"> Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of Wakefield. Mortifications are @@ -2246,7 +2229,7 @@ to buy the two groce between us.’ <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap13"></a>CHAPTER XIII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap13"></a>CHAPTER XIII.</h2> <p class="letter"> Mr Burchell is found to be an enemy; for he has the confidence to give @@ -2357,7 +2340,7 @@ it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap14"></a>CHAPTER XIV.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap14"></a>CHAPTER XIV.</h2> <p class="letter"> Fresh mortifications, or a demonstration that seeming calamities may be real @@ -2540,10 +2523,10 @@ ours, too humble to excite envy, and too inoffensive to create disgust. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap15"></a>CHAPTER XV.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap15"></a>CHAPTER XV.</h2> <p class="letter"> -All, Mr Burchell’s villainy at once detected. The folly of being +All Mr Burchell’s villainy at once detected. The folly of being over-wise. </p> @@ -2707,7 +2690,7 @@ have still remaining.’ <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap16"></a>CHAPTER XVI.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap16"></a>CHAPTER XVI.</h2> <p class="letter"> The family use art, which is opposed with, still greater. @@ -2715,7 +2698,7 @@ The family use art, which is opposed with, still greater. <p> Whatever might have been Sophia’s sensations, the rest of the family was -easily consoled, for Mr Burchell’s absence by the company of our +easily consoled for Mr Burchell’s absence by the company of our landlord, whose visits now became more frequent and longer. Though he had been disappointed in procuring my daughters the amusements of the town, as he designed, he took every opportunity of supplying them with those little @@ -2879,7 +2862,7 @@ daughter’s first appearance in the country, had paid her his addresses. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap17"></a>CHAPTER XVII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap17"></a>CHAPTER XVII.</h2> <p class="letter"> Scarce any virtue found to resist the power of long and pleasing temptation. @@ -2977,45 +2960,45 @@ An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. </p> <p class="poem"> -Good people all, of every sort,<br/> - Give ear unto my song;<br/> -And if you find it wond’rous short,<br/> - It cannot hold you long.<br/> -<br/> -In Isling town there was a man,<br/> - Of whom the world might say,<br/> -That still a godly race he ran,<br/> - Whene’er he went to pray.<br/> -<br/> -A kind and gentle heart he had,<br/> - To comfort friends and foes;<br/> -The naked every day he clad,<br/> - When he put on his cloaths.<br/> -<br/> -And in that town a dog was found,<br/> - As many dogs there be,<br/> -Both mungrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,<br/> - And curs of low degree.<br/> -<br/> -This dog and man at first were friends;<br/> - But when a pique began,<br/> -The dog, to gain some private ends,<br/> - Went mad and bit the man.<br/> -<br/> -Around from all the neighbouring streets,<br/> - The wondering neighbours ran,<br/> -And swore the dog had lost his wits,<br/> - To bite so good a man.<br/> -<br/> -The wound it seem’d both sore and sad,<br/> - To every Christian eye;<br/> -And while they swore the dog was mad,<br/> - They swore the man would die.<br/> -<br/> -But soon a wonder came to light,<br/> - That shew’d the rogues they lied,<br/> -The man recovered of the bite,<br/> - The dog it was that dy’d.<br/> +Good people all, of every sort,<br> + Give ear unto my song;<br> +And if you find it wond’rous short,<br> + It cannot hold you long.<br> +<br> +In Isling town there was a man,<br> + Of whom the world might say,<br> +That still a godly race he ran,<br> + Whene’er he went to pray.<br> +<br> +A kind and gentle heart he had,<br> + To comfort friends and foes;<br> +The naked every day he clad,<br> + When he put on his cloaths.<br> +<br> +And in that town a dog was found,<br> + As many dogs there be,<br> +Both mungrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,<br> + And curs of low degree.<br> +<br> +This dog and man at first were friends;<br> + But when a pique began,<br> +The dog, to gain some private ends,<br> + Went mad and bit the man.<br> +<br> +Around from all the neighbouring streets,<br> + The wondering neighbours ran,<br> +And swore the dog had lost his wits,<br> + To bite so good a man.<br> +<br> +The wound it seem’d both sore and sad,<br> + To every Christian eye;<br> +And while they swore the dog was mad,<br> + They swore the man would die.<br> +<br> +But soon a wonder came to light,<br> + That shew’d the rogues they lied,<br> +The man recovered of the bite,<br> + The dog it was that dy’d.<br> </p> <p> @@ -3118,7 +3101,7 @@ what am I about to say! You may remember, my love, how good she was, and how charming; till this vile moment all her care was to make us happy. Had she but died! But she is gone, the honour of our family contaminated, and I must look out for happiness in other worlds than here. But my child, you saw them go off: -perhaps he forced her away? If he forced her, she may ‘yet be +perhaps he forced her away? If he forced her, she may yet be innocent.’—‘Ah no, Sir!’ cried the child; ‘he only kissed her, and called her his angel, and she wept very much, and leaned upon his arm, and they drove off very fast.’—‘She’s an @@ -3160,7 +3143,7 @@ iniquity.’ <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap18"></a>CHAPTER XVIII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap18"></a>CHAPTER XVIII.</h2> <p class="letter"> The pursuit of a father to reclaim a lost child to virtue. @@ -3293,7 +3276,7 @@ request, after some entreaties, we were prevailed on to comply. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap19"></a>CHAPTER XIX.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap19"></a>CHAPTER XIX.</h2> <p class="letter"> The description of a person discontented with the present government, and @@ -3542,7 +3525,7 @@ giving any manner of attention to the answers. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap20"></a>CHAPTER XX.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap20"></a>CHAPTER XX.</h2> <p class="letter"> The history of a philosophic vagabond, pursuing novelty, but losing content. @@ -3683,7 +3666,7 @@ where mere industry alone was to ensure success. I could not suppress my lurking passion for applause; but usually consumed that time in efforts after excellence which takes up but little room, when it should have been more advantageously employed in the diffusive productions of fruitful mediocrity. My -little piece would therefore come forth in the mist of periodical publication, +little piece would therefore come forth in the midst of periodical publications, unnoticed and unknown. The public were more importantly employed, than to observe the easy simplicity of my style, of the harmony of my periods. Sheet after sheet was thrown off to oblivion. My essays were buried among the essays @@ -4009,7 +3992,7 @@ of the present company has happily hindered me from acting.’ <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap21"></a>CHAPTER XXI.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap21"></a>CHAPTER XXI.</h2> <p class="letter"> The short continuance of friendship amongst the vicious, which is coeval only @@ -4286,7 +4269,7 @@ still, Olivia, and will forget it. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap22"></a>CHAPTER XXII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap22"></a>CHAPTER XXII.</h2> <p class="letter"> Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at bottom. @@ -4415,7 +4398,7 @@ virtue, than an hundred acts of justice.’ <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap23"></a>CHAPTER XXIII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap23"></a>CHAPTER XXIII.</h2> <p class="letter"> None but the guilty can be long and completely miserable. @@ -4560,7 +4543,7 @@ habitation. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap24"></a>CHAPTER XXIV.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap24"></a>CHAPTER XXIV.</h2> <p class="letter"> Fresh calamities. @@ -4581,14 +4564,14 @@ father.’ She complied in a manner so exquisitely pathetic as moved me. </p> <p class="poem"> -When lovely woman stoops to folly,<br/> - And finds too late that men betray,<br/> -What charm can sooth her melancholy,<br/> - What art can wash her guilt away?<br/> -<br/> -The only art her guilt to cover,<br/> - To hide her shame from every eye,<br/> -To give repentance to her lover,<br/> +When lovely woman stoops to folly,<br> + And finds too late that men betray,<br> +What charm can sooth her melancholy,<br> + What art can wash her guilt away?<br> +<br> +The only art her guilt to cover,<br> + To hide her shame from every eye,<br> +To give repentance to her lover,<br> And wring his bosom—is to die. </p> @@ -4749,7 +4732,7 @@ several hints to use dispatch, in about an hour we were ready to depart. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap25"></a>CHAPTER XXV.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap25"></a>CHAPTER XXV.</h2> <p class="letter"> No situation, however wretched it seems, but has some sort of comfort attending @@ -4902,7 +4885,7 @@ influence.’ <p> I thanked him, and could not avoid being surprised at the present youthful change in his aspect; for at the time I had seen him before he appeared at -least sixty.—‘Sir,’ answered he, you are little acquainted +least sixty.—‘Sir,’ answered he, ‘you are little acquainted with the world; I had at that time false hair, and have learnt the art of counterfeiting every age from seventeen to seventy. Ah sir, had I but bestowed half the pains in learning a trade, that I have in learning to be a scoundrel, @@ -4926,7 +4909,7 @@ morning. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap26"></a>CHAPTER XXVI.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap26"></a>CHAPTER XXVI.</h2> <p class="letter"> A reformation in the gaol. To make laws complete, they should reward as well as @@ -5149,7 +5132,7 @@ what could be done. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap27"></a>CHAPTER XXVII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap27"></a>CHAPTER XXVII.</h2> <p class="letter"> The same subject continued. @@ -5295,7 +5278,7 @@ will serve to cement our security. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap28"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap28"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII.</h2> <p class="letter"> Happiness and misery rather the result of prudence than of virtue in this life. @@ -5551,14 +5534,14 @@ which, with my permission, he read as follows:— </p> <p class="letter"> -Honoured Sir,<br/> +Honoured Sir,<br> I have called off my imagination a few moments from the pleasures that surround me, to fix it upon objects that are still more pleasing, the dear little fire-side at home. My fancy draws that harmless groupe as listening to every line of this with great composure. I view those faces with delight which never felt the deforming hand of ambition or distress! But whatever your happiness may be at home, I am sure it will be some addition to it, to hear -that I am perfectly pleased with my situation, and every way happy here.<br/> +that I am perfectly pleased with my situation, and every way happy here.<br> Our regiment is countermanded and is not to leave the kingdom; the colonel, who professes himself my friend, takes me with him to all companies where he is acquainted, and after my first visit I generally find myself received with @@ -5661,7 +5644,7 @@ wanting, and then addressed them with the following exhortation. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap29"></a>CHAPTER XXIX.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap29"></a>CHAPTER XXIX.</h2> <p class="letter"> The equal dealings of providence demonstrated with regard to the happy and the @@ -5815,7 +5798,7 @@ bliss shall be unutterable, and still, to crown all, unending. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap30"></a>CHAPTER XXX.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap30"></a>CHAPTER XXX.</h2> <p class="letter"> Happier prospects begin to appear. Let us be inflexible, and fortune will at @@ -6108,7 +6091,7 @@ introduced. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap31"></a>CHAPTER XXXI.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap31"></a>CHAPTER XXXI.</h2> <p class="letter"> Former benevolence now repaid with unexpected interest. @@ -6522,7 +6505,7 @@ room, where the prisoners themselves sympathized, </p> <p class="poem"> -—And shook their chains<br/> +—And shook their chains<br> In transport and rude harmony. </p> @@ -6634,7 +6617,7 @@ sorrow, and then slept undisturbed till morning. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap32"></a>CHAPTER XXXII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap32"></a>CHAPTER XXXII.</h2> <p class="letter"> The Conclusion. @@ -6729,451 +6712,6 @@ fortune should exceed my former submission in adversity. </div><!--end chapter--> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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