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Show Poorly Paid for Great Work. Oliver Goldsmith was an underpaid man from start to finish. Fifty pounds ($250) for "The Vicar of Wakefield" was bad enough, yet for "The Traveler" Travel-er" he got but 20 ($100) and 5 ($25) for his "English Grammar." For "The Deserted Village," however, his : publisher sent him 100 guineas ($500). This he at once returned, with the message: "It is too much; it is near five shillings a couplet, which is more than any bookseller can afford or, indeed, in-deed, any modern poetry Is worth." So he died with $10,000 worth of debts. 'Was ever poet so trusted before?" aid Dr. Johnson. |