THE WORKS OF WASHINGTON IRVING. NEW EDITION, REVISED. VOL. XI. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. NEW-YORK · OLIVER GOLDSMITH: A BIOGRAPHY. BY WASHINGTON IRVING. NEW-YORK: GEORGE P. PUTNAM, 155 BROADWAY. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY. 1851. 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. 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 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 |