Show WHO TUHO SAID for he who fights and runs away may live to fight 3 again another day e ji toliver THE HE rest of this quotation ot oliver goldsmith Is the author rends reads but he who to la in battle alain can never rise and again oliver goldsmith was born in ireland in 1728 ills father pastor of a small church darned borely enough to support tits ills little family but succeeded in sending ills son to trinity college dublin in 1749 choily after his fathers benth goldsmith left college and prepared to enter the file ministry lie ile was about to enter the clergy when the file bishop of elphon who wua was ills his examiner refused to pass him probably because of tits his knowledge of the youths wildness goldsmith now became tutor to a wealthy family but soon jost josl botlon through a dispute with the muster master of tile house over a game of cards following this episode he was ready to sail for america when he changed his mind and allowed the boat to still without him ills uncle came caine to his rescue and gave him 50 pounds about with which to go to dublin and study law lie ile went to dublin but never studied law there as lie he lost the money his uncle had given him in gambling despite his repeated lie he was again rescued by his uncle and sent to edinburgh to study medicine here he remained for 18 months and acquired some knowledge of medicine but never took a degree from there he went to leyden where he continued his studies at the expense of his uncle his best known works the vicar of wakefield and tile the deserted village achieved instant popularity and brought him a considerable return he hesitated a long lone while before accepting ills his royalty of for the deserted village for feni fear that the publisher alsher would not nol make sufficient clent to cover his expenses expense sl goldsmith died in london april 4 1774 in debt more than 10 but the best loved literary man of his bis genera generation alon wayne D mcmurray cid by keorce matthew adarna |