TABLE OF CONTENTS:

ANALYTICAL AND OHKO NOLOGIC AL.

DEDICATION
PREFACE .

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.

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(10th Nov.) Oliver's birth . . 7
Oliver's father, Charles Goldsmith 8
The epitaph and the family Bible 7-9

1731.
JKt. 3.
1784.

m. e.

Bemoval to Lissoy
Sisters and brothers . .
The family estate . .
Elizabeth Delap ...

The Dame's school of Lissoy

1737.
JEt. 9.

1738.
JEt. 10.

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

Worldly and unworldly advan-

18

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

CHAPTER II.

1745-1749.

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ght to perform, his