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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Prospect and retrospect; first struggles on reaching England; comedian, apothecary's journeyman, poor physician, press- corrector to Richardson; writes a tragedy; projects of Eastern exploration; assistant at Peckham Academy; miseries of an usher; Peckham memories; bound to Griffiths the bookseller, April, 1757; literature of all work; criticism of Gray; quarrels with Griffiths; Memoirs of a Protestant published, February, 1758; returns to Peckham; new hopes; meditating Enquiry into Polite Learning; letters to Mills, Bryanton, Mrs. Lawder (Jane Contarine); obtains and loses appointment as medical officer at Coromandel; rejected at Surgeons' Hall as a hospital mate, December 21, 1758. A T the time of Goldsmith's second arrival in England, for, as will be remembered, he had already paid an unpremeditated visit to Newcastle a year earlier, his previous career could certainly not be described as a success. If his schooldays had been but moderately promising, his college life might almost be called discreditable. He had tried many things and failed. He had estranged his sole remaining parent; he had sorely taxed the patience of the rest of his relations; and he had, latterly, been living as a wanderer on the face of the earth. This was his record in the past. And yet, read by the light of his subsequent story, he had unconsciously gone through a course of training, and accumulated a stock of experience, of which little or nothing was to be lost. He had looked at sorrow close, and learned to sympathise with poverty; he had known men and cities; he had studied character in its undress. If he had profited but slenderly by the precepts of Gaubius and Albinus, his education through the senses had been progressing as silently and as surely as the fame of Marcellu...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217525275 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021752527X |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 148 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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