Show poorly paid for great work oliver goldsmith was an underpaid a from start to finish fifty pounds for the vicar of wakefield was bad enough yet for the travel er he got but 20 and 5 25 tor his english grammar for the deserted village however his publisher sent him guineas this he at once returned with the message it is too much it Is near five shillings a couplet which la more than any bookseller can afford or in deed any modern poetry la worth so he died with 10 worth of debts was ever poet so trusted before said dr johnson |