Excerpt from Oliver Goldsmith, Vol. 1 of 4 In June, 1744, Oliver was sent to Dublin, and entered Trinity College as a Sizar. His tutor, the Rev. Mr. Wilder, one of the Fellows, was a man of savage temper and a great disciplinarian. The thoughtless, gay, and social lad of eighteen inspired this man with a dislike which he mani fested on every occasion. One evening, Goldsmith had invited some of his young acquaintances of both sexes to a supper and dance in his room. The tutor entered in the midst of this out-of-place revelry, and not only addressed the harshest invectives to the thoughtless Sizar, but actually inflicted corporal punishment on him in his friends' presence. The sensitive poet was wounded to the soul. After so terrible a disgrace, he felt that he could not meet his acquaintances again, and he determined to fly from Dublin and seek his fortune in some distant land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.