Annotated Poems of English Authors (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Annotated Poems of English Authors Oliver Goldsmith, the son of an Irish clergyman, was born at Pallas, a very lonely village in county Longford, in the year 1728. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, at the age of seventeen, but his habits were so idle and extravagant that his college career was anything but satisfactory. His friends scarcely knew what to do with him, so reckless and careless had he become. At last he was sent to Edinburgh to study medicine, where he remained for two years, though with little profit to himself. He then went to study at Leyden for a year, and afterwards travelled on foot through France, Switzerland and Northern Italy, without money, and trusting only to his wits and his flute for support. In the year 1756 he landed at Dover, without a penny in his pocket or a friend to help him. At first he tried to get a living as a strolling player; then he became usher in a school for a short time; and, finally, he settled in London as an author. After a while he obtained the friendship of such great men as Dr. Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds the painter, Garrick the actor, and Edmund Burke the orator and statesman. In spite of his success, however, as a graceful writer, he was often in great difficulties through his reckless habits, and he eventually died in 1774, owing a large sum of money. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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