Monthly Review, ib; removes to Grif- fiths's for board and lodging, and small salary, ib; matriculates in Grub-street, 68; miserable drudgery for bread, 70; contributions to the Monthly Review never acknowledged, 72; his reviews discovered from a marked copy, 73; review of Home's tragedy of Douglas, 75, 76; of the Epigoniad, 76; of the Connoisseur, 78; of the Sublime and Beautiful, 79; objections to his critical judgment, 78; not defended, ib; style of criticism of the day, b; review of Smollett's History of England, 79, 80; of Hanway's Journey from Portsmouth, 82; of Cardinal Polignac's Anti-Lucre- tius, 83; of Voltaire's Universal History, 84; of Gray's Odes, ib; quarrel with Griffiths, 88; crimination and recrimi- nation, 88, 89; Griffiths retains his hold, 89; launched again on the world, 90; frequents Temple-exchange coffee- house, ib; occupies a garret near Salis- bury-square, ib; visit from his brother Charles, ib; letters to his brother-in- law Hodson, 92-94; translates Memoirs of a Protestant, 94; published under the name of Willington, 95; gives up literature, and returns to Dr. Milner's, 96; hopes of a medical foreign appointment, 97; Enquiry into the pre- sent State of Polite Learning undertaken, 98; hopes and expectations, ib; leaves Dr. Milner's, ib; letter to Edward Mills, 99, 100; to Bryanton, 101, 102; "dunned for a milkscore," 103; letter to Mrs. Lawder, (Jane Contarine), 104-106; obtains medical appointment on the coast of Coromandel, 107; writes to his brother Henry, ib; letter to Mr. Hodson, 108; critical state of affairs, 109; applies to Mr. Archibald Hamil- ton, ib; why he had joined and left Smollett, ib; resumes writing for the Critical Review, 110; reviews transla- tions of Ovid, ib, 111; his admiration of Dryden, 112 n; his opinion with re- gard to interlopers in literature, ib, 113; removes to Green-arbour-court, ib; intimates and associates in that locality, 114; loses his Coromandel ap- pointment, ib; causes supposed, ib; de- signs to pass the Surgeons'-hall, 115; deplorable condition of his wardrobe, ib; applies to Griffiths, ib; contracts for four articles to Monthly Review, ib; ob- tains credit for a suit of clothes on Griffiths's security, ib; reviews Some Enquiries concerning the First Inhabit-
ants of Europe, ib; Anselm Bayly's In- troduction to Languages, 116; Dr. Bur- ton's Pentalogia, ib; translation of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, ib; pre- sents himself for examination at Sur- geons'-hall, ib; rejected, ib; extract from the books of the college, ib; lamentation in Green-arbour-court, 117; pawns his new suit of clothes, ib; angry correspondence with Griffiths, 118; true beginning of his literary career, 119; contracts to write Life of Voltaire, 120; letter to his brother Henry, 121-123; announcement of Life of Voltaire, 124; completion of the Polite Learning, 125; disposes of his Polite Learning to the Dodsleys, ib; visit from Mr. Percy in Green-arbour-court, ib, 126; working again for Hamilton, 127; reviews Langhorn's Elegy of Adonis, ib; work on Oratory, 128; Murphy's Orphan of China, ib; Butler's Remains, ib; Marriott's Answer to the Critical Re- view, 129; Dunkins's Epistle to Lord Chesterfield, ib; Gouget's Origin of Laws, Arts, and Sciences, ib; Formey's Phi- losophical Miscellanies, ib; Van Egmont's Travels in Asia, ib; Guicciardini's His- tory of Italy, 130; Montesquieu's Miscel- laneous Pieces, ib; Hawkins's Works, ib; Jemima and Louisa, 131; bids adieu to both Reviews, 132, 133; first announce- ment of Polite Learning, 133; his name omitted from the title-page, ib; the overruling feeling of the book, 134; his remarks upon style, 136 n; reviewed by Smollett in the Critical Review, 137; by Kenrick in the Monthly, ib; spirit of their reviews, ib. 138; definition of the uses of an author, 145, 146; engaged by Wilkie to produce the Bee, 152; ex- cellence of his stage criticisms, 153; ill-success of the speculation, 155, 160; visited by Smollett, 158; by Samuel Johnson, ib; a night walk among the wretched, 159; his passion for the stage, 160; gives offence to David Gar- rick, 165, 166; visited by Smollett and Newbery at Green-arbour-court, 182; engagement to write for the British Magazine, 183; first appearance of well- known essays, 184; the "humble op- timist" translated into French, 185; few of those fugitive essays repub- lished by Goldsmith, ib; the Wow-wow club puff for the British Magazine, 186; writes for the Public Ledger for New- bery, 187; nature of his contributions, 188; rate of remuneration, ib; alleged
work for the nursery, 187, 188 n; first appearance of the Chinese Letters, 188, 189; their origin and growth, 189; republished as the Citizen of the World, ib; pawns his watch for Jack Pilking- ton, 197; his kindness to the dying swindler, ib; adventure in White Con- duit-gardens, b; with Charles Lloyd, ib; anecdote of Roubiliac and the flute, 199; humble recreations, the pot-house clubs, 200, 201; begins to learn his value, 202; edits the Ladies' Magazine, ib; raises its circulation, ib; con- tributes to the British Magazine, ib; re- moves to Wine-office-court, 203; visit from Samuel Johnson and Percy, 204; gives a supper on the occasion, ib; neatness of Johnson's attire, its rea- sons and effects, ib, 205; supposed pam- phlet on the Cock-lane Ghost, 206; History of Mecklenburgh, ib; assists New- bery with the Art of Poetry, 207; Com- pendium of Biography, ib; his illness, ib; Mr. Collier furnishes fifth volume of Biography, 208; hopeless entangle- ment of booksellers' advances, ib; re- moves to Tunbridge and Bath, ib; writes the Life of Beau Nash, 209; its style and character, ib, 210; original of Beau Tibbs, ib; a frequent visitor at. Davies's the bookseller's, 213; first in- troduction to Reynolds, ib; friendship of Johnson, 214; member of the Robin Hood debating society, 215; failure of his oratory, 216; visit to Peter Annet in the King's Bench, 217; memorialises Lord Bute for the means to travel, 219; commences the Vicar of Wakefield, ib, 220; opinion of the poetry of the day, 220; dinner at Davies's and first meet- ing with Boswell, 221, 222; his noble defence of Johnson, 223; removes to Islington for health and quiet, 224; re- sides with Mrs. Elizabeth Fleming, ib; introduced by Newbery, ib; terms of his agreement, ib, 225; revises Descrip- tion of Millenium Hall, 225; makes ad- ditions to Wonders of Nature and Art, ib; revises Brooke's System of Natural History, 226; engaged in the Martial Review, ib; writes preface to Universal History, ib; to Rhetoric, ib; to Chronicle, ib; writes for Critical and Monthly, ib; Letters on History of England, ib; in- troduced to the public as written by a nobleman, ib; translated into French by the wife of Brissot, with the revolu- tionary leader's notes, 227; intimacy between him and Hogarth, 228, 229;|
original member of the Literary Club, 233; peculiarity of his position in the Literary Club, 245, 246; want of self- confidence, 246, 247; Johnson's opinion of his future, 247; conversation of Bos- well and Johnson at the Mitre con- cerning him, 249; suppers at the Mitre, 250; takes rooms in the Temple, 255; visit from Johnson, ib; engagement with James Dodsley, ib; undertakes Chronological History of Lives of Eminent Persons, ib; overtures to Tonson, 256; busy with poem and novel, ib; disap pearance from his usual haunts, and distress, 257; kindness to Christopher Smart, 258; writes words for an ora- torio, 259; decisive evidence of dis- tress, ib; struggles for enduring fame, ib; return to Mrs. Fleming's, ib, 260; writes papers for the Christian Maga- zine, 262: alleged to have written child's books for Newbery, ib; visit from Reynolds, 263; member of the Society of Arts, 264; borrows money from Newbery, ib; visit from his old friend Grainger, 269; advises with Percy concerning the Reliques, 270; writes ballad of Edwin and Angelina, ib; arrested for rent by his landlady, 272, 273; produces the Vicar of Wake- field, 273; the Traveller lying in his desk, 275; published and dedicated to Henry Goldsmith, ib, 276; new edition of his Essays, 284; attacked by Grif- fiths, 285 ; recommends books (De Blainville) for the trade, 287 n, n. 10; interview with Lord Northumberland, 1. 288; practises his profession at the suggestion of Reynolds, 299; instances of the junction of the professions of literature and medicine, ib; his only patient and the consequences, 300; literary engagements, 301; Survey of Experimental Philosophy, ib; his re- moval to better chambers in Garden- court, 302; publishes the Vicar of Wake- field, 312; how long the story had been in hand, 317 n; variations in second edition, 320, 323 ; return to the old drudgery, II. 1; compiles Poems for Young Ladies, ib; compiles Beauties of English Poetry, 2; an unfortunate selec- tion, ib; zealous attendance at the theatre, 3; success of the Clandestine Marriage directs his attention to the stage, 4; involvement of his accounts with Newbery, 7; determines to write a comedy, 8; frequents a card-club at the Devil Tavern, Temple Bar, ib; his
simplicity the butt of the club-wits, | ib; writes Preface to Wiseman's Gram- mar, 9; recommends books for the booksellers, 10; services in calling up another generation of writers, 16; still poverty and drudgery, 20; dramatic labour in progress, ib; his estimate of Congreve and Farquhar, ib; dislike of the sentimental school, ib; determines to found his comedy upon hearty humour and actual life, 21; places the MS. of the Good-Natured Man in Gar- rick's hands, 24; withdraws it from Garrick and offers it to Colman, 33; correspondence with Garrick, 37; specimen of theatrical partisanship, 38; teaches Miss Hawkins to play Jack and Gill, 39; writes for Newbery, 40; writes History of Rome for Davies, 41; applies for Gresham lectureship on civil law, ib; returns again to lodgings| in Islington, ib, 42; the Wednesday Club, 42; his "clubable" propensities, ib; desire of superior minds to relax with inferior, ib; epitaph on Edward Purdon, 45; effects on him of Purdon's melancholy fate, ib; the turret of Canonbury House, 46; his society there, ib; club at the Crown-tavern, Islington, ib; returns to the Temple, ib; in communication with Burke about his comedy, ib; receives a visit from Parson Scott at the Temple, 53, 54; ob- ject of his visit, ib; declines to become the tool of faction, ib; the doctor's dis- gust at his independence, ib; sympathy with the very poor, 58; excuse for his inconsiderate talk, 60; consideration of his position among the men of his time, 61; his simple and sensitive na- ture, 62; played on even by his friends, 63; charge of gambling considered, 64; profuseness in clothes and entertain- ments, ib; his excuses, national and personal, ib; his manful struggle, ib, 65; dissatisfaction with Colman, 69; difference with Kelly, ib, 70 n; first ap- pearance of the Good-Natured Man, 73; returns to supper at the club after per- formance, 75; private confession to Johnson of his feelings on the occa- sion, ib; mentioned in note-books of Reynolds, 73, 84, 118; influence on him of the success of his play, 78, 79; purchases chambers in Brick-court with his profits, 79; involved in dif- ficulties and debt, ib; borrows money from Mr. Bott, a barrister, ib; enter- taining in his chambers, 80; dancing a
minuet, ib; occurrences at the Wednes- day Club, ib, 81; practical jokes upon him, ib, 82; intention to marry Kelly's sister-in-law checked by a sensible re- monstrance, 83; loses his brother Henry, 85; character of the village preacher, ib; idea of the Deserted Vil- lage, 87; some unsound views of poli- tical economy, ib, 88; no settled eco- nomical views, 88; country excursions to verify his poetical pictures, ib; mode of composition of the Deserted Village, 89; his shoemaker's holiday, 90; skittles and angling, ib, n; his style the model of the poet Rogers, 92; takes a cottage in Edgeware-road in partnership with Mr. Bott, 93; proceeds with his History of Rome, 94; composes the Deserted Vil- lage, ib; dinners at the Crown and Anchor, 96; musters a party against Home's tragedy of Fatal Discovery, 101; intimacy with Bickerstaff and Hif- fernan, ib; writes for the Gentleman's Journal, 105; a startling visit, ib, 106; intimacy with General Oglethorpe, 106; Jacobite leanings, 107; Johnson and Goldsmith in Westminster Abbey, ib; completion of the Roman History, ib; takes (?) ad eundem degree of M.B. at Oxford, ib; proposes extension of the club, 109; club incidents, 110; writes epilogue for Mrs. Lennox's play of the Sister, 111; excellence in com- position of vers de société, ib; acquaint- ance with the Horneck family, ib; his affection for the "Jessamy Bride," 112; a letter in verse, 113; publishes the Roman History, 114; well received by the critics, ib; preferred by Johnson to Robertson as an historian, ib; agreement with Grif- fin to write History of Animated Nature, 115; with Davies for a History of Eng- land and abridgment of Roman History, ib, 116; change in his habits of life, 118; anticipates the proceeds of the Natural History, ib; the style and tem- per in which he purposed to write the History of England, ib, 119; his dislike to Baretti, 123, 124; reasons for it de- tailed, ib; habit of arriving late to din- ner, 125; bragging of his dress, ib; his bloom-coloured coat, 126; occupied on the English History, and the Animated Nature, 128; engaged upon a Life of Parnell, ib; publication of the Deserted Village announced, but delayed and worked at, ib; hears of a legacy of 157. from his uncle Contarine, 129; cor- respondence with his brother on the
occasion, ib, 130; his portrait painted by Reynolds, 132, 133; engraving in the print-shops, ib; constant guest at the dinner parties in Leicester-square, 136, 137; repeats stories, forgetting their point, 138, 139; his mortifications, 139, 140; wears his heart upon his sleeve, 141; his thoughtless talk, ib; Burke's practical jokes against him, 142, 143; his talk and wit, 143-145; often successful in witty contests with Johnson, 146; the little fishes and the whales, ib; notion of fables for chil- dren, ib; his "liberties" with Johnson, 147; publication of the Deserted Village, 151; Gray's opinion of the poem, 152; Goethe's opinion, 153; his longing for home, 155; stated to have been a strong republican in principle, 157; his opinion on the game-laws, ib, n; his picture of London streets, ib, 158; his farewell to poetry, 162; remark to Lord Lisburn, ib; visits France in company with the Hornecks, 165; his account of the journey, 165, 166; letter to Rey- nolds, 167, 168; joined by his friend Mr. Hickey, 169; return to London, ib; receives the intelligence of his mo- ther's death, ib; Life of Parnell, 171; proposal to mend Gray's Elegy, ib, n; Life of Bolingbroke, 172; imitation of Johnson, ib, 173, 174; visit to Lord Clare, 174; visit to Bath, ib (1. 326, 327); writes the Haunch of Venison for Lord Clare's amusement, 176; translates Vida's Game of Chess, 180; his interest in Chatterton, 189, 190; controversy with Walpole on the subject, 190; quarrel with Percy, b; desire to pur- chase the MS. of Rowley's poems, 191n; new acquaintances frequent the Temple, ib; introduction to Henry Grattan and Judge Day, ib, 192; occupations and dress, 193; libelled by Kenrick, 194 n; fondness for masquerades, ib; a round of pleasures with Reynolds, 195, 196; charge of gambling against him, 197; determines to attempt the theatre again, 199; satirises Cumberland in Retaliation, 200; conscious of Cumber- land's rivalry, 201; determines still to adhere to the old school of comedy, ib; encouraged by Colman, ib; takes lodgings in the Edgeware-road, ib; visited there by Boswell in company with Mickle, ib; his qualifications for writing a Natural History, discussed, 201; how he prepared himself for it, 202; his humble researches in natural
history, ib; his humorous experiences, 202-205; epitaph on Burke prophetic, 213, 214; appearance of his History of England, 215; charges of party spirit against him, ib, 216; denounced as a writer for pay, ib; formal defence in the Public Advertiser, ib; still employed upon his comedy, 217; letter to Bennet Langton, 218, 219; invitation to Mrs. Bunbury's at Barton, 219; fresh en- gagements to Francis Newbery, ib; re- newed intimacy with Garrick, ib, 220; frolics at Barton, 220, 221; letter to Mrs. Bunbury, 222, 223; battling it out in London, 224; scene in the Temple- gardens, 225; liability to imposture from his countrymen, 225, 226; makes the acquaintance of Mr. Cradock, 227; writes the Threnodia Augustalis, ib; in- stances of plagiarism, 228 n; dinner at General Oglethorpe's, 231; discussions with Johnson, ib, 232; returns to his Edgeware lodging, 234; engaged upon his Animated Nature, ib; straitened cir- cumstances, 237; undertakes to write another tale like the Vicar of Wakefield, 238; fraud practised on his name in France, ib; incapability of composing by dictation, 239; remarks on his Animated Nature, ib; some sound views in political economy, 240; hopes in his new comedy, 241; given to Covent- garden, ib; prescience of the French Revolution, 245; visit with Burke to the Puppets in Panton-street, ib; sup- per with Burke, ib; severe illness from sedentary habits, 246; benefited by James's powders, ib; visits the theatre with Steevens to see Macklin, ib; Art- discussion with Barry, 247; political discussions with Burke, ib; dispute with Johnson on the merits of Venice Preserved, ib; deficient in high criti- cism, 248; his desire to play Scrub, 249; his brogue an objection, ib; his "little Cornelys," 250; tête-à-tête sup- pers with Johnson, 251; mortifications from Colman, and sad self-misgivings, 252; Colman's objections and delays, 257, 258; sends the MS. of She Stoops to Conquer to Garrick, ib; annoyances with the actors, 260; celebrities at- tending his rehearsals, 261; difficulties as to an epilogue, 262; letter to Cra- dock on his perplexities, ib; the play not yet named, 263; Reynolds's sug- gestion, ib; name decided on at last, ib; the comedy's success, 265, 266; state of his feelings the night of per-
formance, 267; enters the stage door at | the fifth act, ib; gratitude to Quick and Lewes for their exertions, ib, 268; at- tacked by Kenrick, 270; scuffle with Evans, publisher of the London Packet, 273; defence of himself in the Daily Advertiser, 274, 275; dinner at Ogle- thorpe's, 276; dinner at Paoli's, ib; conversations and discussions, 276-281; dinner at Thrale's, 280, 281; argument with Johnson, ib; dinner at Ogle- thorpe's, ib; arguments between Bos- well and Johnson, 281, 282; discussion on natural history, 283, 284; distresses and disputes, 285; engaged upon his Grecian History, ib; goes oftener to the club, 286; dinner at bookseller Dilly's, 292; argument with Johnson on tolera- tion, ib, 293; quarrel with Johnson at Dilly's, ib, 294; Johnson's apology, ib, 295; opinion of Johnson's visit to the Hebrides, 296; speculation to obtain the literary assistance of his friends, 299; projects a Popular Dictionary of Arts, ib, 300; promised the assistance of Dr. Burney, ib; altered condition of his Temple-chambers, ib; negligence of books and money, ib; requests Percy to be his biographer, 301; de- pression of spirits and bursts of pas- sion, ib; whist parties at Sir William Chambers's, 302; the unfortunate bal- lad-singer, b; a pension in agitation for him, ib; application neglected by the ministry, 303; reasons assignable for their neglect, ib; resentment against Reynolds for his patronage of Beattie, 305; judgment upon the ill-advised al- legoric picture, ib; disappointed hopes from Lord Shelburne, 306; puff for Lord Mayor Townshend, 307; mal-à- propos remark to Lord Shelburne, ib; breach with Colman, 308; wishes to withdraw his comedies from Covent- garden, ib; project of Popular Dictionary declined by the trade, ib; reasons for abandoning the speculation, ib, 309; writes letter to Garrick, 310; offers to alter the character of Lofty for Gar- rick, ib; letter of thanks for money lent, 311; intended visit to Barton, ib; Goldsmith and Sir Joshua at Vauxhall, ib, 312; dinner at Beauclerc's, ib; Gold- smith and Garrick's travestie of Addi- son's Cato, 313; game of Mufti, ib; visit from Cradock in the Temple, 314; last dinner with his friend Cradock, ib; increase in the abruptness of his man- ners, 315; origin of Retaliation, ib; re-l
turns to the Edgeware-lodging, 323; letter to Mr. Nourse, publisher, ib, "; last literary engagements, 324; pur- poses selling his Temple chambers, 325; good resolutions suddenly ar- rested, ib; his last illness, ib; his per- verse treatment of his malady, 326, 327; his last words, 329.
Goldsmith, Rev. Charles, descent, 1.6; marriage, ib; succeeds to the rectory of Kilkenny West, ib; removes to Lis- soy, ib; a prominent character in his son's works, ib; indignation at his daughter Catherine's marriage, 16; en- cumbers his property for a marriage portion, ib; partly sketched in the De- serted Village, II. 86; what his parsonage came to, 159 n.
Goldsmith, Anne, mother of Oliver, I. 6; her distress after her husband's death, 26; her cool reception of Oliver after the Fiddleback adventures, 31; he writes to her, ib; objection to receive him, 33; letter to her, 328; allusions to her in his letters, 122, 331; II. 130; her death, 169; silly story by Miss Rey- nolds refuted, 170.
Goldsmith, Rev. Henry, birth, 1. 6; goes pensioner to Dublin University, 14; obtains a scholarship, 16; becomes pri vate tutor, ib; receives Goldsmith into his house, 33; quarrels with his bro- ther, ib; receives first sketch of the Traveller from Switzerland, 50; writes to his brother as to Essay on Polite Learning, 120; Goldsmith's letter to him, 121-123; dedication to him of the Traveller, 275; Oliver intercedes for him with Lord Northumberland, 258; his death, 11. 85; his widow matron to an infirmary, 354; his daughter dies in distress, ib.
Goldsmith, Esther, wishes to be made housekeeper to Irish Academy, 11. 348; fails, ib.
Goldsmith, Maurice, 1. 6; writes about an unappropriated legacy of uncle Contarine's, II. 129; requests it as an outfit, and asks for an appointment, ib; binds himself to a cabinet-maker, 130, 131; keeps a shop in Dublin, 131; comes to London on his brother's death, 331; his subsequent destitution, 345; made a mace-bearer, ib; dies in want, 347. Goldsmith, Charles, 1. 7; visit to his bro- ther in the garret near Salisbury. square, 90; object of his journey from Ballymahon, 91; wins the secret of
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