This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...advances from booksellers, by promising to execute works which he never began. But at length this source of supply failed. He owed more than 2,000; and he saw no hope of extrication from his embarrassments. 790 His spirits and health gave way. He was attacked by a nervous fever, which he thought himself ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...advances from booksellers, by promising to execute works which he never began. But at length this source of supply failed. He owed more than 2,000; and he saw no hope of extrication from his embarrassments. 790 His spirits and health gave way. He was attacked by a nervous fever, which he thought himself competent to treat. It would have been happy for him if his medical skill had been appreciated as justly by himself as by others. Notwithstanding the degree which he pretended to have received at Padua, he could procure no patients. "I do not practice," he once said; "I make it a rule to pre-800 scribe only for my friends." "Pray, dear Doctor," said Beauclerk, "alter your rule, and prescribe only for your enemies." Goldsmith now, in spite of this excellent advice, prescribed for himself. The remedy aggravated the malady. The sick man was induced to call in real physicians; and they at one time imagined that they had cured the disease. Still his weakness and restlessness continued. He could 810 get no sleep, he could take no food. "You are worse," said one of his medical attendants, "than you should be from the degree of fever which you have. Is your mind at ease?" "No, it is not," were the last recorded words of Oliver Goldsmith. He died on the 3rd of April, 1774, in his forty-sixth year. He was laid in the churchyard of the Temple; but the spot was not marked by any inscrip-820 tion, and is now forgotten. The coffin was followed by Burke and Reynolds. Both these great men were sincere mourners. Burke, when he heard of Goldsmith's death, had burst into a flood of tears. Reynolds had been so much moved by the news that he had flung aside his brush and palette for the day. A...
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Good. Book Royal octavo; frontis is a literary map of England (looks like a real map). Smoke stain to top pages, else VG in dark green boards. Book title embossed on cover. Selected works from the End of the Middle Ages, The Elizabethan Age, Puritans and Cavliers, The Age of Classicism, The Age of Romanticism, The Victorian Age, Recent and Contemporary Poetry, Recent and Contemporary Prose, and an Appendix. 1022 pages. including index.
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