Life And Times Of O Goldsmith

Author : John Forster
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484757973
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith (Classic Reprint) written by John Forster and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith The marble in Westminster Abbey is correct in the place, but not in the time, of the birth Of oliver goldsmith. He was born at a small Old parsonage house (supposed afterwards to be haunted by the fairies, or good people of the district, who could not however save it from being levelled to the ground) in a lonely, remote, and almost inaccessible Irish village on the southern banks of the river Inny, called Pallas, or Pallasmore, the property of the Edgeworths of Edgeworthstown, in the county of Longford, on the 10th Of November, 1728: a little more than three years earlier than the date upon his epitaph. His father, the reverend Charles Goldsmith, descended from a family which had long been settled in Ireland, and held various oflices or dignities in connection with the established church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.