FOOTNOTE:
[22] From "The Vicar of Wakefield," by Oliver Goldsmith, a celebrated English author (1728-1774).
Expression: In this selection and the two which follow we have three other specimens of English prose fiction. You will observe that they are very different in style, as well as in subject, from the three specimens at the beginning of this book. Compare them with one another. Reread the selections from Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot, and compare them with these. Which do you like best? Why?