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THE WORKS
OF
WASHINGTON IRVING.
NEW EDITION, REVISED.
VOL. XI.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
NEW-YORK · GEORGE P. PUTNAM.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Birth and parentage.-Characteristics of the Goldsmith race.--Poetical birth-
place.-Goblin house.-Scenes of boyhood.-Lissoy.--Picture of a country
parson.-Goldsmith's schoolmistress.-Byrne, the village schoolmaster.
Goldsmith's hornpipe and epigram.-Uncle Contarine.-School studies and
school sports.-Mistakes of a night,
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CHAPTER II.
Improvident marriages in the Goldsmith family.-Goldsmith at the university.—
Situation of a sizer.-Tyranny of Wilder, the tutor.-Pecuniary straits.-
Street ballads.-College riot.-Gallows Walsh.-College prize.—A dance
interrupted,
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CHAPTER III.
Goldsmith rejected by the bishop.-Second sally to see the world.--Takes
passage for America.-Ship sails without him.--Return on Fiddle-back-
A hospitable friend.--The counsellor,
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CHAPTER IV.
Sallies forth as a law student.--Stumbles at the outset.--Cousin Jane and the
valentine.-A family oracle.-Sallies forth as a student of medicine.-