the garret from the Temple-exchange] waiter, ib; reception by his brother, ib; quits London in a few days, ib; sails for Jamaica, and returns after thirty-four years' absence, ib, 192 n; additional news of, II. 353-354; his share in the "trade's" munificence to Goldsmith's relatives, 352. See AP- PENDIX, A, vol. II.
Goldsmith, John, of Ballyoughter, 1. 8; Goldsmith boards with him while at school at Elphin, ib; his opinion of his nephew, ib, n.
Goldsmith, Dean of Cloyne, visit to Mr. Contarine, 1. 33; his opinion of young Oliver, ib; recommends his studying the medical profession, ib; the hint his only contribution, ib.
Goldsmith family, births and history, I. 6, 7; family Bible, 6 n; their opinion of themselves, 12; the last of them, II.
Good-Natured Man, Johnson promises a prologue, n. 21; intended for Covent- garden, 24; first placed in Garrick's hands, ib; difficulties as to its represen- tation, ib; suggestions of alteration made by Garrick, 26; not accepted by the author, ib; analysis of the charac- ters, 26-29; Garrick's objections to the character of Lofty, 29; submitted to the arbitration of Whitehead, the laureat, 30; withdrawn from Garrick, and given to Colman, 33; read by Burke, 68 n; Johnson attends rehearsal, 72; the Literary Club present the first night, 73; squabbles of actors respecting parts, ib; cast of the characters, ib, 74; Shuter's exertions in the part of Croaker, 73; ill-reception of the bailiff scene, 74; adverse chances of success, ib; decided by the inimitable humour of Shuter in scene of "incendiary let- ter," ib; opinion of Gibbon's friend, Deyverdun, 76 n; increased success on removal of the bailiff-scene, 77; pub- lished by Griffin, ib; arrives im- mediately at a second edition, 77; the bailiff-scene eventually restored, ib;| played fifth night by command of their Majesties, 78; selected by Shuter for his benefit, ib.
Goody Two Shoes, authorship of, 1. 262, ib, 263 n.
Gouget, President, Origin of Laws, Arts, and Sciences, I. 129; reviewed by Gold- smith, ib.
Grafton Ministry, the, II. 50; a triumph of royalty, ib; its character and con-
stitution, ib; deserted by the Chatham party, ib; assailed by Burke, 150; by Junius, ib; by Chatham, ib; falls, ib. Graham, Rev. Mr., story of the incident in She Stoops to Conquer, vouched to him by Jack Fitzsimmons, I. 15 n; by Sir Thomas Featherston, 16; speech at public meeting in Ballymahon, ib, n. Graham, George, one of the masters of Eton, II. 61; author of the masque of Telemachus, ib; his insolence to Gold- smith, ib.
Grainger, Dr. James, contributor to the Monthly Review, 1. 68; author of the Sugar-Cane, 90; meets Goldsmith at Temple-exchange coffee-house, ib; char- acter of him by Goldsmith, Johnson, and Percy, ib, n; connection with the Grand Magazine, 99; Bishop Percy's af- fection for him, ib, n; his ballad of Bryan and Pereene, ib, n; his return from the West Indies, 269; brings out his poem of the Sugar-Cane, ib; com- plains of Goldsmith's non-correspond- ence, ib; robbed near London, ib, n; an epitaph connected with, ib, 270. Grand Magazine of Universal Intelligence established, 1. 99; supported by Grain- ger, Percy, &c., ib; doubts as to Gold- smith's contribution, ib; Bryan and Pereene first published in, ib, n.
Granger, Rev. James, author of the Bio- graphical History, 1. 280; puzzled by a line in the Traveller, ib; his corre- spondence with Davies, 11. 172; his character, 216 n; odd mention of Gold- smith in his book, ib.
Grattan, Henry, introduction to Gold- smith, II. 191; Goldsmith's attachment to him, ib.
Gray, the poet, his war against mathe- matics, 1. 22; his Master Tommy Lu- cretius, 83; his liking and disliking for Voltaire, 83, 84 n; reasons of Walpole's attachment to him, 84; his Odes printed by Walpole at Strawberry-hill, 85; in- difference to popular influences, 84; light in which he regarded the genius of others, 85; learned idleness, ib; re- viewed and praised by Goldsmith, 86, 87; his opinion of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and Sermons, 195 n; praises Green's Spleen, and Johnson's London, 220, 221 n; account of Kit Smart when fellow of Pembroke College, 258 n; de- light in the musical-glasses, 317 n; opinion of Pitt's accepting a peerage, II. 12 n; the charm of his letters, 66 n; tampered with by Mason, ib, n; lines
on the redbreast and woodlark, 94 n;| his treatment by Lord Bute, 95 n; ob- tains the professorship of Modern His- tory, 95, 96; opinion of Boswell's book about Corsica, 96 n; calls Johnson Ursa Major, 108; his remark on Gar- rick's jubilee, 121; pleasant anecdote of him, ib, 122 n; his dulness in con- versation, 146; dines at Walpole's with Hogarth, ib, n; his last summer, 151; last letter to Walpole, b, n; his deli- cate criticism, b; criticism on the De- serted Village, 152; affecting remark on his mother, 170; laughs at Walpole's belief in Rowley's Poems, 190; depre- ciation of Harris's Hermes, 278 n. Grecian Coffee-house, favourite resort of the Irish and Lancashire Templars, II. 193.
Green, Rev. Mr., rector of Kilkenny
West, 1. 6; uncle to Charles Gold- smith's wife, ib.
Green, author of the Spleen, 1. 220, 221 n; Gray's opinion of it, ib. Green-arbour-court, place of Goldsmith's residence, 1. 113; described, ib; visited by Washington Irving, ib; mentioned by Ward and Strype and Macaulay,
Greene, Rev. Mr., his assistance in the early education of Goldsmith, I. 18 n. Grenville, George, his ministry, I. 292; known by the name of the Blooms- bury Gang, ib; his impolitic conduct rouses the American Colonies to in-
surrection, ib; passes the Stamp Act, ib; first outbreak of the king's malady, 293; the clash and confusion of parties, ib; reasons of the king's dislike, ib; his downfall, 295; uses of literature to him, II. 16; taunts Charles Townshend, 47; left in the lurch, 50.
Griffin, Mr. Gerald, author of the tragedy of Gisippus, 1. 153 n; comes to London without a friend and with one tragedy, ib, n; composes Gisippus on fragments of paper in coffee-houses, ib; writes re- jected comedies and farces, ib; want of common necessaries, ib; becomes booksellers' hack, b; enters a con- vent in his thirty-fifth year, 154 n; burns all his compositions but Gisippus, ib; acted after his death, at Drury-lane,| by Mr. Macready, ib. See APPENDIX D, vol. 1. 335, 336.
tory, 115; publishes the Deserted Village,
Griffiths, Ralph, bookseller, proprietor of the Monthly Review, 1. 64; meets Gold- smith at Dr. Milner's table, ib; at- tracted by his remarks, ib; engages him as a reviewer, ib; feud between him and Smollett, 73 n; he and his wife tamper with Goldsmith's com- positions, 72, 88; quarrel with Gold- smith, 88; becomes security to a tailor for a suit of clothes for him, 115; de- mands payment, 118; calls Goldsmith a sharper and a villain, ib; Goldsmith's letters to him, ib; publishes an in- famous book, 119 n; obtains degree of Doctor from an American university, 119; success in life, ib; contracts with Goldsmith for Life of Voltaire, 120; his "sign," 133; attacks Goldsmith's En- quiry, 137; apologises, 190; attacks the Essays, 285 n; attacks Goldsmith's Life of Bolingbroke, II. 172 n; attacks She Stoops to Conquer, 266 n.
Griffiths, Mrs., Mr. De Quincey's sketch of, I. 71, 72 n; tampers with Gold- smith's compositions, 72, 88; letter to Grub-street, Goldsmith enters, 1. 68; her, 110, 132.
what Walpole and Hume thought of its quarrels, 139; great activity in, 147; its leading ornaments, 148; Johnson there, ib; his definition of, ib; its debasement of literature, 316 n. Guicciardini's History of Italy, 1. 130; re- viewed by Goldsmith, ib. Gun, the Misses, milliners, their generous feeling towards Goldsmith, II. 315. Gwyn, Mrs. (Jessamy Bride), 11. 112-114; meets Hazlitt in Northcote's painting- room, 113; character by Burke, 112 n: defence of Goldsmith, 166; account of his visits to Barton, 220, 221 n. Se6 HORNECK.
HAMILTON, Duke of, Goldsmith's employ- ment in his family, 1. 35. Hamilton, Archibald, bookseller, estab- lishes the Critical Review, 1. 61; ap- plied to by Goldsmith after quitting Griffiths, 109; engages him for the Critical Review, ib; makes a fortune out of Smollett's History, 110; not very liberal in his payments, b; conscious of Goldsmith's value, ib.
Griffin, Mr., publishes the comedy of the Good-Natured Man, II. 77; engagement with Goldsmith to write Natural His-Hamilton, Mr. Gerard, anecdote of John-
son's oratory, I. 216, 217 n; his conduct to Burke, 237, 238. Handsome Housemaid, the, Foote's attack upon the sentimental school, II. 259. Hanway, Jonas, 1. 80; Johnson's dictum concerning him, ib; his character, ib; originates the Marine and Magdalen Societies, 81; introduces the umbrella, ib; crusade against tea, 82; writes Journey from Portsmouth, ib; reviewed by Johnson in Literary Magazine, ib; by Goldsmith in Monthly Review, ib. Harding, the poet, his prosopopoeia of the Deserted Village, II. 160 n.
Harness, Rev. William, on Goldsmith's abridgments, II. 216 n.
Harris (author of Hermes) describes Mrs. Yates' benefit, II. 33 n.
Hastings, Warren, impeachment of, II. 208 n; active part taken by Burke in, ib; the hostilities and scandals so pro- voked, ib.
Haunch of Venison, its origin, II. 176; written for the amusement of Lord Clare, ib; variations in the editions, 177; criticisms and characters, ib, 178; pillories Parson Scott, 179. Havard, Mr., author of Regulus, 1. 76. Hawes, Dr., attendant on Goldsmith in his last illness, II. 326; narrative of its circumstances, ib; his tribute to Gold- smith, 327 n; his last visit, 328; man- ages the funeral, 331; kindness to Maurice, ib, n.
Hawkesworth, Jack, the essayist, an imi- tator of Johnson, I. 281. Hawkins, Sir John, opinion on the foundation of sizarships, I. 17 n; anec- dote of Goldsmith and Roubiliac, 200 n; contradicted, ib; member of Ivy-lane and Literary Clubs, 232; reasons for his objection to Goldsmith's election, 235; a literary attorney, ib; dabbles in music at the Madrigal Club, ib; out of place in the Literary Club, ib; borne with for the sake of Johnson's old as- sociations, ib; falls into a large fortune through his wife, ib; withdraws from the law, ib; becomes a Middlesex magistrate, ib; chairman of sessions, ib; knighted, ib; writes a history of music, ib; epitaph and epigram on him, ib; pedantry of his disposition, ib; denounces sentimental writers, ib; par- ticular antipathy to Goldsmith, 236; declines to partake supper on score of expense, ib, declared by Johnson to be an unclubable" man, ib; gross rudeness to Burke, 237; causes his Oliver Goldsmith's Life and Times. II.
secession from the club, ib; style of his language and conversation, ib, n; blunders as to Goldsmith's arrest,
274 n; amazement at the Traveller, 279; praises the poem of Edwin and Angelina, 286; meets Goldsmith at levee of the Earl of Northumberland, 288; thinks him an idiot for his inde- pendence, 289; ignoble charge against Burke, 294; intercedes for Garrick's admission to the Literary Club, 298; wonder at Mr. Burke's success, 310; accuses Goldsmith of envying John- son, II. 61; unauthorised repetitions of ill-natured sayings, 61 n; anecdotes of Goldsmith's rudeness, 141.
Hawkins, Rev. Mr., Works, I. 130; re- viewed by Goldsmith, ib; Answer by Hawkins, ib; re-reviewed, ib, 131; pro- fessor of poetry at Oxford, ib, n; author of the Thimble, the Siege of Aleppo, ib; offers his tragedy to Garrick, ib; re- fused by him, ib; professes to write in imitation of Shakespeare, ib; corre- spondence with Garrick, ib.
Hawkins, Lætitia Matilda (Memoirs), de- fence of her father, character of the Burkes, 1. 237-239; sketch of Bennet Langton, 243 n; recollections of Gold- smith's kindness to children, II. 39; her scandalous anecdotes, 116, 117; descrip- tion of Walpole, 190 n. Haydon, the painter, anecdotes of Mrs. Gwatkin, Johnson, and Goldsmith, II. 202 n. Hazlitt, William, on Steele's pretensions as a comic writer, II. 70; interview with the "Jessamy Bride" in North- cote's painting-room, 113; admiration of Northcote's talk, 141, 142 n. Heber, Mr., his original copy of Edwin and Angelina, I. 287, 288; variations be- tween it and the copy in the novel, ib. Henriade, Voltaire's, Goldsmith contracts to write Life to be prefixed, I. 120. Herder, Johann Gottfried, critic, I. 321; reads Vicar of Wakefield to Goethe, ib. Hickey, Mr., a friend of Goldsmith's, II. 169; niched in Retaliation, ib; raillery indulged at Goldsmith's expense, ib. Hiffernan, Paul, a protégé of Goldsmith's, II. 101; his character and habits, ib, 102; writes theatrical critiques, 102; pensioned by Garrick, ib.
Higgins, Captain, introduced into the Haunch of Venison, II. 177; probably accompanied Goldsmith to chastise Kenrick, 272 n.
Highlands, Goldsmith's trip to, I. 36;
alleged unpublished incident concern- ing, ib, n, 37 n.
Hill, Aaron, author of Merope, 1. 76. History of Italy, by Guicciardini, I. 130; reviewed by Goldsmith, ib. Hoadly, Dr., John, younger brother of the author of the Suspicious Husband, II. 77; his opinion of Goldsmith's "low" humour, ib; anecdote of Beck- ford, 143 ; his lost farce, ib; attack on Goldsmith, 275 n.
Hodson, Daniel, Esq., of St. John's, Ros- common, father-in-law of Catherine Goldsmith, 1. 16; indignation at the match, ib; reproaches CharlesGoldsmith, ib; obtains a legal engagement for mar- riage portion, ib; influence on Gold- smith's prospects, ib.
Hodson, Mr. Daniel, of St. John's, Ros- common, I. 16; privately marries Ca- therine Goldsmith, ib; pupil of Henry, I her brother, b; parental indignation at the marriage, ib; Goldsmith's letter to him, 92, 93; endeavours to collect a subscription for Goldsmith's travels abroad, ib.
Hodson, Oliver Goldsmith, son of Gold- smith's brother-in-law, returns to Lon- don, II. 131; his occupation in the in- terval, ib; lives as a pensioner on his uncle, ib; curious adventure with a lot- tery ticket, ib; practises occasionally as an apothecary in Newman-street, ib; succeeds to his patrimonial estate, ib.
Hodson, Mrs., Narrative contributed to the Percy Memoir, I. 8 n; on the dis- position of her brother, 9 n; anecdote to Reynolds of Goldsmith's most ex- quisite meal," 24.
Hogan, Mr., restoration of Lissoy, n. 159, 160 ; gets up the allusions of the De- serted Village for the pleasure of pil- grims, ib.
Hogarth, sketching Garrick, 1. 222; en- couraging a coward to fight, 228; Barry's first interview with him, ib; visit to Goldsmith at Islington, 229; causes of the friendship between Gold- smith and Hogarth, 228, 229; advice to Mrs. Thrale, 229 n; paints portrait of Goldsmith, 229; and of his landlady, ib; generous motives for doing so, ib, 230; difficulties of his temper, 231; op- position between him and Reynolds, ib; the school he studied from, ib; opinions on art, b; quarrel with Churchill, 276; his plate suggests Clan- destine Marriage, 11. 4; his portrait of
Goldsmith, 7; at dinner with Wal- pole, 146 n.
Holberg, Baron de, his career, 1.42; ob- scure origin, ib; arrives at distinction, ib; passion for travel and information, ib, 43; influence of his character upon the fortunes of Goldsmith, 44, 45.
Home, Rev. John, author of the tragedy of Douglas, 1. 74; refused at Drury- lane, ib; endorsed by the Scottish ca- pital, ib; pronounced to be superior to Shakespeare, 75; David Hume's opinion of his genius, ib; its author ejected by the presbytery, b; acted at Covent- garden, ib; its success, ib; jealousy of Garrick, ib; reviewed by Goldsmith, 76; his Agis produced, 164; cried over by Gray, ib; his pension, 212; his Fatal Discovery, 11. 101; brought out by Gar- rick at Drury-lane, ib; the author's name suppressed, ib.
Hone, his Every-day Book, assertion that Goldsmith wrote the Deserted Village in the tower of Canonbury-house, П. 46 n. Honner, Mr., fellow-student with Gold- smith in Edinburgh, 1. 38; introduces him to his tailor, ib; name unknown, 38 n.
Horneck, Charles, his unfortunate mar- riage, II. 325 n.
Horneck, the Misses, their family and connections, II. 111, 112; their intimacy with Goldsmith, 112; the fascination exercised over him by the "Jessamy Bride," ib; they invite Goldsmith to dinner at Dr. Baker's, 113; the reply to the invitation in verse, ib; their visit with Goldsmith to France, 165; ad- ventures at Lisle, 166; at Paris, 168; at Versailles, 169; "Little Comedy" becomes Mrs. Bunbury, 219; present at the rehearsals of She Stoops to Conquer, 262; the "Jessamy Bride" insulted by Kenrick, 272; her brother, or Captain Higgins, accompanies Goldsmith to chastise him, ib, n; their brother's un. fortunate marriage, 325 n; Goldsmith's coffin opened at the sisters' request to obtain a lock of his hair, 330, 331. See GWYN.
Hospital mate, Goldsmith resolves to be one, I. 115; examined and rejected,
Hudson, Mr. G. F., descendant of Gold- smith's brother-in-law Hodson, I. 131 n.
Hughes, Rev. Patrick, master of Edge- worthstown school, 1. 14; his special kindness to Goldsmith, ib.
JACK's Tavern, Soho, tête-à-tête suppers of Johnson and Goldsmith, 11. 251. Jacob, Mr., chemist, on Fish-street-hill, I. 55; employs Goldsmith out of com- passion as an assistant, ib; supplies further assistance, 56.
Jeffreys, Mr., translates Vida's Game of Chess, II. 182; submits it for the opinion of Pope, ib; comparison between his translation and that of Goldsmith, ib, n.
Hume, David, opinion of the tragedy of Douglas, 1. 75; favourable effect of the persecution of the General Assembly on the sale of his History, ib; brings the Tudor volumes of his History to London, 77; opinion of Burke's Treatise on the Sublime, 78; impatience at Smollett's History, 80; view of litera- ture in England and France, 139; Gold- smith promises him fame, 158; secre- tary to the embassy at Paris, 302; his immense popularity there, ib; descrip- tion of him in Madame d'Epinay's let- ters, 303 n; his feeling towards Rous- seau, ib n; offers him a home in Eng-Jemima and Louisa, type of the fashion- land, b; becomes under-secretary to Marshal Conway, II. 15; his detestation of the English world of letters, 18, 19; declines an introduction to Percy, 18; attacked by his protégé Rousseau, 19; caricatured in company with Rous- seau, ib, n; letter to the Countess Boufflers, respecting Lord Chatham, 49; his charge against ministers for indifference to literature, 55; his pen- sion increased, 94; impression of the character of Boswell, 96 n; a believer in the authenticity of Ossian, 191; re- cantation of his error, ib.
IMITATION Of Johnson, Goldsmith charged with, 1. 281, 304; a real example of, II. 172.
Inchbald, Mrs., her opinion of the char- acters in the Good-Natured Man, 11. 29, 76 n.
Inny river, I. 5; scene of Goldsmith's early sports and pleasures, 27. Introduction of Languages, by Anselm Bayly, I. 116; reviewed by Goldsmith, ib. Ireland, Goldsmith's affection for, 1. 28; copyright not then extended to, 98; effects on the bookselling trade, ib; Goldsmith hopes to defeat piracy by early transmission of copies, ib; speci- men of patronage in Irish Church, 289 n.
Irving, Washington, his pilgrimage to Green-arbour-court, 1. 113; describes it in his Tales of a Traveller, ib, 114; his too confident assumption as to Goldsmith and the "Jessamy Bride," II. 112 n. Islington, its appearance in Goldsmith's time, 1. 224; his club in the lower road, II. 46; his room in Canonbury tower, ib, n.
able novel of Goldsmith's day, 1. 131; Goldsmith's account of it, ib, 132. Jenkinson, Charles (first Lord Liver- pool), lord of the Treasury, II. 50; member of the king's private junto, 51; started in his career as writer in the Monthly Review, ib; rats from Whiggism to Toryism, ib; becomes private secre- tary to Lord Bute, ib; his private char- acter and principles, ib.
Jephson, Horace Walpole's opinion of, II. 255, 264 n.
Jerrold, Douglas, his comedy of the King of Bath, 1. 209 n; suggested by Gold- smith's Life of Beau Nash, ib.
Johnson, Samuel, on the effects of the pursuit of literature on literary men, I. 1; character of Goldsmith, 3, 4, 7; opinion as to foundation of sizarships, 17 n; his character at Oxford, 19; re- commended by bookseller Wilcox to buy a porter's knot, 65; sterling inde- pendence of his nature, 66, 68, 148, 204; Dictionary finished, 68; writes paragraphs for the London Chronicle, ib; contributes to the Universal Review, 69; opinion of Scotch claret, 75 n; on the tragedy of Douglas, 76; his opinion of interlopers in literature, bishops, judges, and physicians, 113 n; on vigorous men, 117; objections to his own style, 136 n; reply on the failure of Irene, 144; night-wanderings with Savage, 148; repays bookseller Os- borne's insults, 149 n; letter to Lord Chesterfield, ib; letter to Thomas War- ton, on the near completion of his Dictionary, ib, n; his moderate notions of expenditure, 150; Dr. Burney's visit to him in Gough-square, ib; removes to a poorer lodging, ib; contributes to the Idler, 151; begins to be recognised as intellectual chief, ib; pays the ex- penses of his mother's funeral with the
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