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Credit: Life of Oliver Goldsmith / By Austin Dobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![much of the red in her complexion.' ' Madam, I am of your opinion,' says the second \ 'I think her face has a palish cast, tco much on the delicate order.' ' And let me tell you,' added the third lady, whose mouth was puckered up to the size of an issue, ' that the Duchess has fine lips, but she wants a mouth.' At this every lady drew up her mouth as if going to pronounce the letter P.' One wonders wmether Dickens recalled this passage, when he drew that delightful mistress of the proprieties, who expatiated upon the inestimable advantages to the feminine lips of habitually pronouncing such words as prunes and 'prism. In two more letters Goldsmith writes affectionately to his Uncle Contarine of his professors and occupations, of a month's tour in the Highlands on a horse of about the size of a ram, and so forth. But he is already restlessly meditating another move,—he proposes to go to Leyden to attend the lectures of Albinus. From the latter of these two epistles, his uncle's consent has been obtained, and he is preparing to start, not for Leyden but for Paris, where the great Mr. Farhein, Petit, and Du Hamel du Monceau instruct their pupils in all the branches of medicine. They speak French [i.e., in contradis- tinction to the Latin of other continental professors], he goes on, and consequently I shall have much the advantage of most of my countrymen, as I am perfectly acquainted with that language, and few who leave Ireland are so. From another passage in this letter, he would seem to have been for some time an inmate 3](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21224201_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
