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Page ix
... called Pallas , in the county of Longford . There he with diffi- culty supported his wife and children on what he could earn , partly as a curate , and partly as a farmer . At Pallas , Oliver Goldsmith was born in No- vember , 1728 ...
... called Pallas , in the county of Longford . There he with diffi- culty supported his wife and children on what he could earn , partly as a curate , and partly as a farmer . At Pallas , Oliver Goldsmith was born in No- vember , 1728 ...
Page xvi
... called Breakneck Steps . The court and the ascent have long disappeared ; but old Londoners well re- member both . Here , at thirty , the unlucky ad- venturer sat down to toil like a galley slave . In the succeeding six years , he sent ...
... called Breakneck Steps . The court and the ascent have long disappeared ; but old Londoners well re- member both . Here , at thirty , the unlucky ad- venturer sat down to toil like a galley slave . In the succeeding six years , he sent ...
Page xviii
... called the Literary Club , but which has always disclaimed that epithet , and still glories in the simple name of The Club . In By this time , Goldsmith had quitted his mis- erable dwelling at the top of Breakneck Steps , and had taken ...
... called the Literary Club , but which has always disclaimed that epithet , and still glories in the simple name of The Club . In By this time , Goldsmith had quitted his mis- erable dwelling at the top of Breakneck Steps , and had taken ...
Page xix
... called in the help of a sheriff's officer . The debtor , in great perplexity , despatched a messenger to Johnson ; and Johnson , always friendly , though often surly , sent back the messenger with a guinea , and promised to follow ...
... called in the help of a sheriff's officer . The debtor , in great perplexity , despatched a messenger to Johnson ; and Johnson , always friendly , though often surly , sent back the messenger with a guinea , and promised to follow ...
Page xxx
... called opulent . Not one in ten of the young gentlemen of good families , who were studying the law there , had so much . But all the wealth which Lord Clive had brought from Bengal , and Sir Lawrence Dundas from Germany , joined ...
... called opulent . Not one in ten of the young gentlemen of good families , who were studying the law there , had so much . But all the wealth which Lord Clive had brought from Bengal , and Sir Lawrence Dundas from Germany , joined ...
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