(2) Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild: There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher’s modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a-year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e’er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. GOLDSMITH, _The Deserted Village_, 1770 (3) When Plenty smiles--alas! she smiles for few-- And those who taste not, yet behold her store, Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore-- The wealth around them makes them doubly poor. Or will you deem them amply paid in health, Labour’s fair child, that languishes with wealth? Go, then! and see them rising with the sun, Through a long course of daily toil to run; See them beneath the Dog-star’s raging heat, When the knees tremble and the temples beat; Behold them, leaning on their scythes, look o’er The labour past, and toils to come explore; See them alternate suns and showers engage, And hoard up aches and anguish for their age; Then own that labour may as fatal be To these thy slaves, as thine excess to thee. CRABBE, _The Village_, 1783 6. We give first Johnson’s famous letter in which he refuses to accept the tardy patronage of Lord Chesterfield. Show how the style is appropriate to the subject, and how the letter reveals the life and character of Johnson. Compare the style and temper of this letter with those of the one that follows. In this extract Horace Walpole describes the burial of George II. From this brief extract, what can you tell of the character of Walpole? (1) _February 7, 1755_ MY LORD, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of _The World_, that two papers, in which my _Dictionary_ is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive or in what terms to acknowledge.