. First steps with American and British authors. o debt, scrapes, and difficulties generally. Morethan once his uncle Contarine opened his purse to assisthis thriftless nephew, who occasionally was forced to writeand sing street ballads tokeep himself from left Dublin in 1749, andspent a year or two in idle-ness, alternating with irreso-lute and vain attempts tosettle down, first as a school-master, and then as a uncle sent him to Edin-burgh to study medicine ; andfrom Edinburgh he proceed-^ed to Leyden, where he re-mained only a year, and thenset off to make, on foot, t
. First steps with American and British authors. o debt, scrapes, and difficulties generally. Morethan once his uncle Contarine opened his purse to assisthis thriftless nephew, who occasionally was forced to writeand sing street ballads tokeep himself from left Dublin in 1749, andspent a year or two in idle-ness, alternating with irreso-lute and vain attempts tosettle down, first as a school-master, and then as a uncle sent him to Edin-burgh to study medicine ; andfrom Edinburgh he proceed-^ed to Leyden, where he re-mained only a year, and thenset off to make, on foot, thetour of the European Conti-nent, and with no resources whatever except a guinea and a flute. In this destitutemanner Goldsmith proceeded through Flanders, France,Switzerland, and Italy. After his return to England he made the friendshipof Dr. Johnson, and published The Traveller (1764),which brought him both money and celebrity. Encour-aged by this success, and by the kindly interest takenin him by such men as Pitt, Burke, and Sir Joshua Rey-. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. I/O i^. J. Z .^^ /.V ENGLISH CLASSICS. Bolds, Goldsmith produced in succession his celebrateddomestic novel, The Vicar of Wakefield; his twocomedies, ^^The Good-natured Man and She Stoopsto Conquer; and ** T t I rstrted Village. These were all in : : ring degree successful; but nothing could :t t irrtunate author the virtues of caution, st : t : self-respect. He continued to be borne r : is life remained as darkly checkered s_^ t Ht r t rime of life, in 1774, of a fever pr t ay £iis iiic^ui v^-^e of liv- ing and intense mer: i : :iety. He was : i in thegraveyard of the Temple Church Fieet Street, London,where a flagstone stiU marks his grave; and in WestminsterAbbey there is a monument to his memory, inscribed witlia Latin epitaph from the pen of Dr. Johnson. The poetry of Goldsmith is simple in expression, andfull of quiet tenderness, while his lines are easy and me-lodious. In his prose works ho is considered to hav
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