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OLIVER GOLDSMITH:
A BIOGRAPHY.
BY
WASHINGTON IRVING.
NEW-YORK:
G. P. PUTNAM & COMPANY, 10 PARK PLACE.
PS
2050 1852 501791 v.ll
SIX AUG 24 30
ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by WASHINGTON IRVING,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern Distric of New-York.
JOHN F. TROW,
Printer and Stereotyper 49 Ann-street, NY
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Birth and parentage.-Characteristics of the Goldsmith race.--Poetical birth.
place. Goblin house.-Scenes of boyhood.-Lissoy.--Picture of a country
parson.-Goldsmith's schoolmistress.-Byrne, the village schoolmaster.—
Goldsmith's hornpipe and epigram.-Uncle Contarine.-School studies and
school sports.-Mistakes of a night,.
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CHAPTER II.
Improvident marriages in the Goldsmith family.-Goldsmith at the university.—
Situation of a sizer.-Tyranny of Wilder, the tutor.-Pecuniary straits.—
Street ballads.-College riot.-Gallows Walsh.-College prize.-A dance
interrupted,
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CHAPTER III.
Goldsmith rejected by the bishop.-Second sally to see the world.-Takes
passage for America.-Ship sails without him.-Return on Fiddle-back. -
A hospitable friend.-The counsellor,
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CHAPTER IV.
Sallies forth as a law student.-Stumbles at the outset.-Cousin Jane and the
valentine.-A family oracle.-Sallies forth as a student of medicine.-
Hocus-pocus of a boarding-house.—Transformations of a leg of mutton.—
The mock ghost.-Sketches of Scotland.-Trials of Toryism.-A poet's
purse for a Continental tour, .
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CHAPTER V.
The agreeable fellow-passengers.-Risks from friends picked up by the way-
side.--Sketches of Holland and the Dutch.-Shifts while a poor student at
Leyden. The tulip speculation.-The provident flute.--Sojourn at Paris.-
Sketch of Voltaire.--Travelling shifts of a philosophic vagabond,
66
CHAPTER VI.
Landing in England.-Shifts of a man without money.-The pestle and
mortar.-Theatricals in a barn.-Launch upon London.-A city night
scene. Struggles with penury.-- Miseries of a tutor.-A doctor in the
suburb.--Poor practice and second-hand finery.—A tragedy in embryo.--
Project of the written mountains,
77
CHAPTER VII.
Life of a pedagogue.-Kindness to schoolboys-pertness in return.-Expensive
charities. The Griffiths and the "Monthly Review."-Toils of a literary
hack.-Rupture with the Griffiths,
84
CHAPTER VIII.
Newbery, of picture-book memory.-How to keep up appearances.-Miseries
of authorship.-A poor relation.-Letter to Hodson,
89
CHAPTER IX.
Hackney authorship.-Thoughts of literary suicide.-Return to Peckham.-
Oriental projects.-Literary enterprise to raise funds.-Letter to Edward
Wells-to Robert Bryanton.-Death of uncle Contarine.-Letter to cousin
Jane,
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