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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ... of her brother, furnished to Bishop Percy. His birthday is there stated to be the 29lh of November, instead of the date here assigned. Henry is also said to bo eight years his senior--an error probably repeated from seeing it in one of the poet's letters, though the interval could not have been more than six years, if so much; and a space of eight years, stated to have occurred between the birth of the previous child and Oliver, really took place between the latter and the succeeding son, Maurice. About the year 1730, Mr. Goldsmith, by the death of his wife's uncle, succeeded to the rectory of Kilkenny West. He removed at the same time to Lissoy, a respectable house and farm, on the verge of a small village standing in his own parish, on the right of the road leading from Ballymahon to Athlone, and about midway between these towns. It was neither a glebe house, nor did he, as is sometimes said, build it; but the lively interest which this spot has excited, as well in his native country as wherever the "Deserted Village" is read, as the supposed scene portrayed in the poem, added to the numerous enquiries made, even in Ireland, whether such a village as Auburn exists, or was really deserted, make some further notice of this spot necessary. Lissoy, in that scarce volume, giving an account of the forfeited estates in Ireland, would appear to have been a species of personal property of James II. It was sold, or at least such portion of it as he claimed, amounting to one hundred and twenty-one acres, in 1708, to Captain Richard Newstead, of Westmeath, for four hundred and twenty-one pounds, the annual rent of the then tenant in possession, Robert Temple, Esq., being twentynine pounds. It is described as consisting of arable and...
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