... of Sir Thomas Browne, the essays of Addison and Steele, and later the Bible and Shakespeare. His best loved writer, however, from first to last, and the one whose genius was most like his own, was Goldsmith . The only way to describe my experience with , he said in his later years, is to acknowledge that I am a crank. It touches me more deeply, it gives me the all-overs more severely than all other...