OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Rischgitz Collection.]

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
(From the painting by Reynolds.)

Bell's Miniature Series of Great Writers

Oliver Goldsmith

BY

E. S. LANG BUCKLAND

LONDON
GEORGE BELL & SONS
1909

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PREFACE

It is only right to acknowledge my indebtednessin the compilation of this volume to JohnForster, to whom as one of the most courageous,industrious, and sympathetic of the writers ofbiography, all students of Goldsmith must beprofoundly grateful. To several other writersI must also express my thanks, and to save thetime of my kind readers and to preserve aproper sense of obligation, it would perhapsbe best to admit at once that if this little bookhas any merits, they are due to others, whileits errors are all my own.

E. S. L. B.

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