The book The Life And Times of Oliver Goldsmith, volume 1 was written by author Forster, John, 1812-1876 Here you can read free online of The Life And Times of Oliver Goldsmith, volume 1 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Life And Times of Oliver Goldsmith, volume 1 a good or bad book?
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This pauper proposal acceded to, Goldsmith doubtless returned to Green Arbour Court with the four books under his arm. They were : Some Enquiries Concerning the First Inha- bitants of Europe* by a member of the Society of Antiquaries, known afterwards as Francis Wise, and Thomas Warton's friend ; Anselm Bayly s Introduction to Languages ; t the * Monthly Review, xix. 513, December L758 f Ibid, 519 166 OLIVER GOLDSMITH 8 LIFE AND TIMES. [Book IL 1758. Pentalogia of Doctor Burton;* and a new Tran...slation of Mt. 30. Cicero's Tuscidan Disputations^ The notices of them thus extorted made due appearance, as the first four articles of the Monthly Review for December 1758 ; the tailor was then called in, and the compact completed. Equipped in his new suit, and one can well imagine with what an anxious, hopeful, quaking heart, Goldsmith offered himself for examination at Surgeons' Hall (the new building erected six years before in the Old Bailey), on the 21st December. " The beadle called my name, " says Roderick Random, when he found himself in similar condition at that place of torture, " with a voice that made me tremble " as much as if it had been the sound of the last trumpet : " however there was no remedy : I was conducted into a " large hall, where I saw about a dozen of grim faces sitting " at a long table, one of whom bade me come forward in " such an imperious tone, that I was actually for a minute ' ; or two bereft of my senses.
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