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Excerpt from Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Essays and Poems; With Memoirs of the Author Including Original Anecdotes, Communicated by the Rev. J. Evans Deserted Village. The booksellers gave him a tiote of an hundred guineas for the copy, which Goldsmith returned, saying to a friend, It is too much; itris more than the honest bookseller can afford, or the piece is worth. He estimated the value accordiugtothe following computation: That it was near five shillings a couplet, which was more than any bookseller could afford; or, indeed, any mddern poetry was worth; but the sale was so rapid, that the book seller, with the greatest pleasure, soon paid him the hun dred guineas, with an acknowledgment for the generosity he had evinced upon the occasion. 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.