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Title: Oliver Goldsmith

Author: E. S. Lang Buckland

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OLIVER GOLDSMITH

[Illustration:
_Rischgitz Collection._]
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
(From the painting by Reynolds.)]

Bell's Miniature Series of Great Writers

Oliver Goldsmith

BY

E. S. LANG BUCKLAND

[Illustration]

LONDON
GEORGE BELL & SONS
1909

PREFACE

It is only right to acknowledge my indebtedness in the compilation of
this volume to John Forster, to whom as one of the most courageous,
industrious, and sympathetic of the writers of biography, all students
of Goldsmith must be profoundly grateful. To several other writers I
must also express my thanks, and to save the time of my kind readers
and to preserve a proper sense of obligation, it would perhaps be best
to admit at once that if this little book has any merits, they are due
to others, while its errors are all my own.

E. S. L. B.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. "THE BEST BELOVED OF ENGLISH WRITERS" 1
II. "THE DESERTED VILLAGE" 13
III. "THE TRAVELLER" 27
IV. LONDON 36
V. "THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD" 45
VI. THE LITERARY CLUB 50
VII. DEBTS AND DIGNITIES 59
VIII. CONSUMMATE COMEDY 66
IX. THE POET AND THE ESSAYIST 75
X. THE LIGHT OF LOVE 84

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