Oliver Goldsmith

A Biography

Biography & Memoir, Literary, Historical
Cover of the book Oliver Goldsmith by Washington Irving, The Horsham House Press
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Author: Washington Irving ISBN: 1230000232735
Publisher: The Horsham House Press Publication: April 12, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Washington Irving
ISBN: 1230000232735
Publisher: The Horsham House Press
Publication: April 12, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

The life of Irish man of letters Oliver Goldsmith, by novelist Washington Irving.

Oliver Goldsmith was born on the 10th of November, 1728, at the hamlet of Pallas, or Pallasmore, county of Longford, in Ireland. He sprang from a respectable, but by no means a thrifty stock. Some families seem to inherit kindliness and incompetency, and to hand down virtue and poverty from generation to generation. Such was the case with the Goldsmiths. "They were always," according to their own accounts, "a strange family; they rarely acted like other people; their hearts were in the right place, but their heads seemed to be doing anything but what they ought."—"They were remarkable," says another statement, "for their worth, but of no cleverness in the ways of the world." Oliver Goldsmith will be found faithfully to inherit the virtues and weaknesses of his race.

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The life of Irish man of letters Oliver Goldsmith, by novelist Washington Irving.

Oliver Goldsmith was born on the 10th of November, 1728, at the hamlet of Pallas, or Pallasmore, county of Longford, in Ireland. He sprang from a respectable, but by no means a thrifty stock. Some families seem to inherit kindliness and incompetency, and to hand down virtue and poverty from generation to generation. Such was the case with the Goldsmiths. "They were always," according to their own accounts, "a strange family; they rarely acted like other people; their hearts were in the right place, but their heads seemed to be doing anything but what they ought."—"They were remarkable," says another statement, "for their worth, but of no cleverness in the ways of the world." Oliver Goldsmith will be found faithfully to inherit the virtues and weaknesses of his race.

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