The Vicar of Wakefield
The Vicar of Wakefield
by Oliver Goldsmith
A TALE
Supposed to be written by Himself
Sperate miseri, cavete faelices
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There are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth; he is a priest, an husbandman, ...