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OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S

LIFE, ADVENTURES, AND TIMES.

VOL. I.

THE

LIFE AND TIMES

OF

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

BY

JOHN FORSTER.

SIXTH EDITION: ILLUSTRATED.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

BICKERS & SON, 1, LEICESTER SQUARE.

RG9642

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

LONDON:

PRINTED BY VIRTUE AND CO., LIMITED,

CITY ROAD.

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A DIFFICULT JOURNEY TO A SPLENDID TOMB.

NEW-WRIT, NOR LIGHTLY WEIGHED, THAT STORY OLD
IN GENTLE GOLDSMITH'S LIFE I HERE UNFOLD:

THRO' OTHER THAN LONE WILD OR DESERT-GLOOM,
IN ITS MERE JOY AND PAIN, ITS BLIGHT AND BLOOM,
COME WITH ME AND BEHOLD,

ADVENTUROUS.

O FRIEND WITH HEART AS GENTLE FOR DISTRESS,
AS RESOLUTE WITH WISE TRUE THOUGHTS TO BIND

THE HAPPIEST TO THE UNHAPPIEST OF OUR KIND,

THAT THERE IS FIERCER CROWDED MISERY

IN GARRET-TOIL AND LONDON LONELINESS
THAN IN CRUEL ISLANDS 'MID THE FAR-OFF SEA.

March, 1848.

JOHN FORSTER.

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