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Goldsmith was the second son of an Irish clergyman. After spending his childhood years at Lissoy, County Westmeath, he attended Trinity College, Dublin, from 1744 till 1749. He was a disorganised and irregular student, and his later medical studies at Edinburgh and Leiden were finally abandoned for a life of wandering about Europe, earning his meals and a bed by playing his flute for his peasant hosts.
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Ruddick, W. (1992). Goldsmith, Oliver (1728–74). In: Raimond, J., Watson, J.R. (eds) A Handbook to English Romanticism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22288-9_32
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