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Tales Of A Traveller - Life Of Oliver Goldsmith
Tales Of A Traveller Life Of Oliver Goldsmith Author:Washington Irving TALES A TRAVELLER. WASHINGTON IRVING, - TALES OF A TRAVELLER . PART FIRST . a STRANGE STORIES BY A NERVOUS GENTLEMAN . A Hunting Dinner ...................................................... . . ....... P . A GE 6 AAddvveeunttuurree ooff m m y r UAnucnlte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... more ». . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 3 1 1 0 Bold Dragoon ...................................................................... 25 4clveuture of the Mysteyious Picture ............................................. 33 Adventure of the Mysterious Stranger ........................................ .-. .. 40 Story of the Young Italian ........................................................ 47 a PART SECOND . BUCETHORXE AND HIS FRIENDS . Literary Life .................................................................. 71 Titernrg Dinner .................................................................. 73 Club of Queer Fello v . s . .......................................................... 76 Poor Devil Author ............................................ ................. 80 Elickthorne or. the Young Man of great Expectations .......................... 95 - Grave Reflections of a Disappointed Man ......................................... 134 Booby Squire ................................................................... 138 Strolling Nanager ................................................................ 143 PART THIRD . THE ITALIAN BANDITTI . Inn at Terracina ................................................................... 154 - 4dventure of the Little Antiquary ................................................ 165 Aclve ltureo f the Popltins Family ................................................. 170 Painters Adventure ........................................................... 174 Story of t. he Bandit Chirftain ..................................................... 183 f3tory of the younz Robber ............................ ...... ................. 192 PART FOURTH . THE NONEY. DIGGERS . Hell Gate ......................................................................... P . A 2 G 0 E 7 Kidd. the Pirate ................................................................ 209 Devil and Torn 17alker ........................................................... 213 Wolfert Webber or. Golden Dreams ............................................ 285 Adventure of Sarn. the Black Fisherman ........................................ 8 11 TALES OF A TRAVELLER. STRANGE STORIES BY A NERVOUS GENTLEMAN. Ill tell you more there was a fish taken, A mollstrous fish, with a sword bys side, a long sword, A pike ins neck, arid a gun ins nose, a huge gun, And letters of mart ins moutll, fro111 the Duke of Florencs. Cleanthes. This is a monstrous lie. To ty. I do confess it. Do you think Id tell you truths SLETCHER W S I FE FO R A MONTH. The following adventures were related to me by the same nervous gentleman who told me the romantic tale of THE STOUT GENTLEBIApNub, lished in Bracebridge Hall. It is very singular, that although I expressly stated that story to have beentold to me, and described the very person who told it, still it has been received as an adventure that Iiappened to myseli. Now, I protest I never met with any adventure of the kind. I should not have grieved at his, had it not been intimated by the author of Tvaverley, in ail iiltroduction to his romance of Peveril of the Pcalc, that he was hiinself the Stout Gentleman alluded to...« less