Note 222 — Chapter IV · THE SATIRIC GROUP

“Goldsmith remembered a quotation from Voltaire made by himself in The Monthly Review for August, 1757: ‘The success of the Persian Letters arose from the delicacy of their satire. That satire which, in the mouth of an Asiatic, is poignant, would lose all its force when coming from an European.’” Editor’s Prefatory Note to The Citizen of the World in Vol. II., p. 86, Works of Oliver Goldsmith, edited by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A., in four volumes, New York ... 1881.