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THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

OLIVER GOLDSMITH, M. B.

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THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

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THE LIFE

OF

OLIVER GOLDSMITH, M. B.

OUR Author was the third fon of the Rev. Charles Goldfmith, and was born at Elphin, in the county of Roscommon, in Ireland, in the year 1729. After being well inftructed in the claffics, he was admitted a fizer in Trinity College, Dublin, on the 11th of June 1744. While he refided there, he exhibited no fpecimens of that genius, which, in his maturer years, raised his character so high. On the 27th of February 1749, O. S. (two years after the regular time) he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Soon after, he turned his thoughts to the profeffion of phyfic; and, after attending fome courses of anatomy in Dublin, proceeded to Edinburgh, in the year 1751, where he ftudied the feveral branches of medicine under the different profeffors in that university. His beneficent difpofition foon involved him in unexpected difficulties; and he was obliged precipitately to leave Scotland, in confequence of having engaged himself to pay a confiderable fum of money for a fellow-ftudent.

A few days after, about the beginning of the year 1754, he arrived at Sunderland, near Newcastle, where he was arrested at the fuit of one Barclay, a taylor in Edinburgh, to whom he had given fecurity for his friend. By the friendship of Mr. Laughlin Maclane and Dr. Sleigh, who were then in the college, he was foon delivered out of the hands of the bailiff, and took his paffage on board a Dutch fhip to Rotterdam, whence, after a fhort ftay, he

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