"Would you have me tamely sit down and flatter our infamous betrayer; and to avoid a prison continually suffer the more galling bonds of mental confinement! No, never. If we are to be taken from this abode, only let us hold to the right, and wherever we are thrown, we can still retire to a charming apartment, when we can look round our own hearts with intrepidity and pleasure!"
The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale
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See also Oliver Goldsmith, <u>The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. Supposed to be Written by Himself</u>, 2 vols. (Salisbury: B. Collins, 1766). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113759305&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004897279.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004897279.0001.002">Vol. II</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading Oliver Goldsmith, <u>The Vicar of Wakefield</u>, ed. Stephen Coote (London and New York: Penguin Books, 1986).