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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
ANALYTICAL AND OHKO NOLOGIC AL.
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DEDICATION
PREFACE . |
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ADDITIONAL NOTES AND COKJREOTIONS TO BOTH VOIUMES.....xxvii
TABLE OF CONTENTS . . , . . . . •' . • xxsix
THE AUTHOR TO THE READER . . . . . . . . . 1
BOOK I. 1728 to 1757.
THE SIZAR, STUDENT, TRAVELLER, APOTHECARY'S JOURNEYMAN, USHMK,
AND POOR PHYSICIAN. Pages 7 to 98.
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CHAPTER I.
1728-1745. ,
SCHOOL DAYS AND HOLIDAYS.
1'AQE
(10th Nov.) Oliver's birth . . 7
Oliver's father, Charles Goldsmith 8 The epitaph and the family Bible 7-9 |
How Goldsmith regarded youth-
ful excesses .... 18 1739. The Athlone school . . 1!) 2Et. 11 Genius exhibited and trade abau
doned . . . ' . . 19
1741. The- Bdgeworthstown school 20
2Bt. IS. A kind schoolmaster . . 20
1743. Classical studies ... 20
JEt. 15. Athletic sports ... 21
1744. Oliver's last holidays . . 21
JSt. 16. Mistakes of a Night . . 22
Disposition to swagger . . , 22
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Bemoval to Lissoy
Sisters and brothers . . The family estate . . Elizabeth Delap ...
The Dame's school of Lissoy
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1731.
JKt. 3. 1784.
m. e.
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The Master's village school
Vagrant tastes . . .
Blind Carolan's wayside melodies 11
'Attack of small-pox . . . 11
The Elphin school . . . . 12
Scribbling verses . . .12
Bad and good Spirits . . . 18
Pirn at Uncle John's . . . 13
Retaliation . . . . , 14
Composition of the Percy Memoir . 14
Different sources and forms of
"vanity ...... 15
'Holofernea and Goodman Dull . 16
Charles Goldsmith's character . 16
Family failings . . . . 17
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CHAPTER II.
1745-1749.
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1737.
JEt. 9. |
1746. Darkening prospects . . 23
jEt. 17. Sizarship suggested . .24
•Various opinions thereon . 24
Uncle Contarine . . . 25
A Sizarship obtained . . 26
Henry Flood and Edmund Burk 26
• 'Uses of a flute .... 26
1746. Lounging at the college gates 27
JEt. 18. Fellow collegians ... 27
The Sizar's " friends". . 28
1747. Charles Goldsmith's death •. 28
JEt. 19. Squalid poverty ... 28
Writing street-ballads . . 29
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JEt. 10. |
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