Ireland and Her People an Encyclopedia of Irish Biography, Together People a Popular History of Ancient and Modern Erin, to Which Is Added an Appendix of Copious Notes and Useful Tables (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Ireland and Her People an Encyclopedia of Irish Biography, Together People a Popular History of Ancient and Modern Erin, to Which Is Added an Appendix of Copious Notes and Useful TablesJohnson corked the bottle and calmed the poet. He then told me, says Johnson, that he had a novel ready for the press which he'prbduced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit told the landlady I should soon return, and hav ing gone to' a bookseller sold it for sixty pounds. This was the world-renowned Vicar of Wakefield. Strange to say, Johnson 'did not seem fully to estimate its merits and thought it well paid for. So too, thought the purchaser, for he kept the manuscript over till after the publication of The Traveller. This poem had been the thoughtful labor of manv an hour. In it were treasured the philo'sophic re¿ections of his two years' travel over Europe, expressed in lan guage which had received again again the careful polish of many a mo ment snatched from other work. It Was published by Newberry, Dec. 16. 1764, bearing the author's name and dedicated to his brother Henry in Ireland. By those who were best Calculated to pro nounce a judgment, the. Merit of the poem wa-'s'at once recognized. 'there has not been so fine a poem since Pope's time, said-johnson, and others accorded as high praise. Johnson's eulogy is fully deserved and The Traveller is still among the most perfect examples of its style. Langdon remarked, there is not a bad line in that poem and Fox pro? Nounced it one of the first poems in the English language. The reviews and literary journals then began to see its beauties and at last the general public believed in it. Edition after edition was called for and translations were made into more than one continental language, and for this immortal poem he received only twenty guineas! Goldsmi'th's repu tation was now placed on a solid basis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.