Note 18 — Front matter
Reading edition
It seems indeed to be growing into fashion for philosophy to go in masquerade, if there be any truth in the subject of the following; which lately appeared in the public prints.
To Doctor Goldsmith, on seeing his name in the list of the mummers at the late masquerade.
"Say should the philosophic mind disdain That good which makes each humbler bosom vain; Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, Such little things are great to little man."
Goldsmith.
How widely different, Goldsmith, are the ways Of doctors now, and those of ancient days! Theirs taught the truth in academic shades, Ours haunt lewd hops, and midnight masquerades! So chang'd the times! say philosophic sage, Whose genius suits so well this tasteful age, Is the Pantheon, late a sink obscene, Become the fountain of chaste Hippocrene? Or do thy moral numbers quaintly flow Inspir'd by th' Aganippe of Soho?