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OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S LIFE AND TIMES.

1746. years later. But not till a man becomes famous is it
Mi, IB. to be expected that any'wonderful feats of memory should

be performed respecting him; and it seems tolerably
evident that, with the exception of perhaps Bryanton
and Beatty, not one owner of the names recounted put
. himself in friendly relation with the sizar, to elevate,
assist, or cheer him. Richard Malone, afterwards Lord
Sundeiiin; Barnard and Marlay, afterwards worthy bishops
of Eallaloe and Waterford; found nothing more pleasant than
to talk of "their old fellow-collegian Doctor Goldsmith," in
the painting-room of Reynolds: but nothing, I suspect, so
difficult, thriving lads as they were in even these earlier days,
than to vouchsafe recognition to the unthriving, depressed,
insulted Oliver.*

1747. A year and a half after he had entered college, at the
mi9. commencement of 1747, his father suddenly died. The

scanty sums required for his support had been often inter-
cepted, but this stopped them altogether. It may have been
the least and most trifling loss connected with that sorrow;
but " squalid poverty," relieved by occasional gifts, accord-
ing to his small means, from uncle Contarine, by petty loans
from Bryanton or Beatty, or by desperate pawning of his
books of study, was Goldsmith's lot thenceforward. Yet
even in the depths of that despair, arose the consciousness
of faculties reserved for better fortune than continual

* '' When he had got high in fame," said Johnson to Boawell, '' one of his friends
" began to recollect something of his being distinguished at college. Goldsmith in.
"the same manner recollected more of that friend's early years, as he grew a greater
"man," JBosweU vi. 810. This, we must admit, is the general rule. Barnard, after-
wards Dean of Derry, and ultimately Bishop of Killaloe, from which diocese he was
translated to that of Limerick, will'frequently appear in these pages. He was
upwards of eighty when he died, at Wimbledon, in 1806. Marlay became bishop
of Waterford, and is characterised with much truth by Malone as an amiable,
benevolent, and ingenious man.



	OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S LIFE AND TIMES. 1746. years later. But not till a man becomes famous is it Mi, IB. to be expected that any'wonderful feats of memory should be performed respecting him; and it seems tolerably evident that, with the exception of perhaps Bryanton and Beatty, not one owner of the names recounted put . himself in friendly relation with the sizar, to elevate, assist, or cheer him. Richard Malone, afterwards Lord Sundeiiin; Barnard and Marlay, afterwards worthy bishops of Eallaloe and Waterford; found nothing more pleasant than to talk of "their old fellow-collegian Doctor Goldsmith," in the painting-room of Reynolds: but nothing, I suspect, so difficult, thriving lads as they were in even these earlier days, than to vouchsafe recognition to the unthriving, depressed, insulted Oliver.* 1747. A year and a half after he had entered college, at the mi9. commencement of 1747, his father suddenly died. The scanty sums required for his support had been often inter- cepted, but this stopped them altogether. It may have been the least and most trifling loss connected with that sorrow; but " squalid poverty," relieved by occasional gifts, accord- ing to his small means, from uncle Contarine, by petty loans from Bryanton or Beatty, or by desperate pawning of his books of study, was Goldsmith's lot thenceforward. Yet even in the depths of that despair, arose the consciousness of faculties reserved for better fortune than continual * '' When he had got high in fame," said Johnson to Boawell, '' one of his friends " began to recollect something of his being distinguished at college. Goldsmith in. "the same manner recollected more of that friend's early years, as he grew a greater "man," JBosweU vi. 810. This, we must admit, is the general rule. Barnard, after- wards Dean of Derry, and ultimately Bishop of Killaloe, from which diocese he was translated to that of Limerick, will'frequently appear in these pages. He was upwards of eighty when he died, at Wimbledon, in 1806. Marlay became bishop of Waterford, and is characterised with much truth by Malone as an amiable, benevolent, and ingenious man.