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A
HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by
WASHINGTON IRVING,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.
JOHN F. TROW, Printer and Stereotyper, 49 Ann-street, New-York.
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.--
Hocus-pocus of a boarding-house-Transformations of a leg of mutton.-
The mock ghost.--Sketches of Scotland.-Trials of Toryism.-A poet's
purse for a Continental tour,
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CHAPTER V.
The agreeable fellow-passengers.-Risks from friends picked up by the way-
side. Sketches of Holland and the Dutch.-Shifts while a poor student at
Leyden. The tulip speculation.-The provident flute.--Sojourn at Paris.——-
Sketch of Voltaire.--Travelling shifts of a philosophic vagabond,
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CHAPTER VI.
Landing in England.-Shifts of a man without money.-The pestle and
mortar.-Theatricals in a barn.-Launch upon London.-A city night
scene. Struggles with penury.-- Miseries of a tutor.-A doctor in the
suburb.-Poor practice and second-hand finery.-A tragedy in embryo.--
Project of the written mountains,
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CHAPTER VII.
Life of a pedagogue.—Kindness to schoolboys—pertness in return.—Expensive
charities.-The Griffiths and the "Monthly Review."-Toils of a literary
hack.-Rupture with the Griffiths,
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CHAPTER VIII.
Newbery, of picture-book memory.-How to keep up appearances.—Miseries
of authorship.-A poor relation.-Letter to Hodson,
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CHAPTER IX.
Hackney authorship.-Thoughts of literary suicide.-Return to Peckham.-
Oriental projects.-Literary enterprise to raise funds.-Letter to Edward
Wells-to Robert Bryanton.-Death of uncle Contarine.-Letter to cousin
Jane,
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