Oliver Goldsmith
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—gambled, was helped to money—lost it— at 24 went to Edinbugh to lectures—thence to Leyden— —at 27 with a smattering of medical knowledge wandered through France,Italy, Switzerland—Flanders, Italy
—returned to England—lived in low
life
from 30 to 36—a literary hack
—then better known & better off
—then prosperous received sums
of £200, £300, £600 &c for his
poems, histories & plays—
as a talker, fri[illegible]volous, weak, no good—
as a writer and compiler, wonderfully
ignorant
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was a gambler still—got
deeply in debt £2000—preyed upon
his mind—
associates regarded him with
kindness and contempt
he was envious, and showed it—
income last 7 years of his life £400 a
year
died 3rd April, 1774—in
his 46th year
he sometimes felt keenly the
sarcasm which his wild
blundering talk brought upon
him.
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Oliver Goldsmith
born at Pallas, (Ireland) Nov. 1728 father a curate & small farmer —moved to Wesmeath £200 a year educated Trinity College, Dublin thoughtless, heedless, credulous,—gambled, was helped to money—lost it— at 24 went to Edinbugh to lectures—thence to Leyden— —at 27 with a smattering of medical knowledge wandered through France,
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was a gambler still—got
deeply in debt £2000—preyed upon
his mind—
associates regarded him with
kindness and contempt
he was envious, and showed it—
income last 7 years of his life £400 a
year
died 3rd April, 1774—in
his 46th year
he sometimes felt keenly the
sarcasm which his wild
blundering talk brought upon
him.
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