THE WORKS

OF

WASHINGTON IRVING.

NEW EDITION, REVISED.

VOL. XI.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

NEW-YORK:
GEORGE P. PUTNAM.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH:

A BIOGRAPHY.

BY

WASHINGTON IRVING.

NEW-YORK : GEORGE P. PUTNAM, 155 BROADWAY.

LONDON: JOHN MURRAY.

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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 stereoiy por,

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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