One Autumn Night part 8
But, ugh! it was impossible for me to think that, for cold drops of rain were dripping down upon me, the woman was pressing...
The Disabled Soldier Part 1
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
Goldsmith`s family were Irish people of English descent. Oliver Goldsmith was born in County Longford, Ireland. He went to Trinity College, Dublin,...
The Disabled Soldier Part 2
With what indignation do I hear an Ovid, a Cicero or a Rabutin complain of their misfortunes and hardships, whose greatest calamity was that...
The Disabled Soldier Part 3
I had some dis-position to be a scholar, and was resolved at least to know my letters: but the master of the workhouse put...
The Disabled Soldier Part 4
We had but an indifferent passage, for being all confined in the hold, more than a hundred of our people died for want of...
