Excerpt from Charles Townshend: Wit and Statesman<br><br>And of histories like Mr. Forster's exhaustive life of Goldsmith, obtain of the brilliant man who is the hero of the following pages, are of a very tantalizing sort, and must have often prompted a wish for further acquaintance with one whose entrance on the stage seems to light up the dull round of political reading. These glimpses have, indeed, about them something almost fascinating. He steps on the stage as gay and airy as a French light comedian.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.