manuscript of Rasselas, 152; his reasons |
for not printing a list of subscribers,
ib, n; first mentioned publicly by Gold-
smith, 158; opinion of Garrick, 168;
receives him as a pupil, 169; not pos-
sessor of a watch till sixty years of
age, 197; his mode of writing prefaces,
202 n; visit to Goldsmith at Wine-
office-court, 203; accompanied by
Percy, 204; his dress and appearance,
ib; reasons alleged for his particularity,
ib; a supper without a Boswell, ib;
his idleness and independence, 205;
opinion of the Cock-lane Ghost, 206;
on great debts and small ones, 208;
purchases the Life of Beau Nash, 211;
Wedderburne recommends him for a
pension, ib; Arthur Murphy visits him
in Inner Temple-lane, ib; dinner at
the Mitre, 212; waits upon Lord Bute,
ib; takes Davies's part against Garrick,
ib; his admiration of pretty Mrs. Da-
vies, 213; intimacy with Davies, the
bookseller, ib; his opinion as to "very
feeling" people, 214 n; his friendship
for Goldsmith, ib; quarrel with Foote,
ib; threatens him with a cudgelling,
ib; opinion of him, 215 n; deficiency as
an orator, 216 n; causes of it, ib; what
he might have done had his pension
been granted earlier, 219; opinion of
Goldsmith's fitness for travel, ib; his
comparison of the entrance into litera-
ture, 220 n; contributes to Poetical Ca-
lendar, ib; criticism of Gray in Dods-
ley's Collection, ib, 294 n; his friendship

pious view of Smart's infirmities, 259;
his indifference to the scheme of
Percy's Reliques, 270; call for his edi-
tion of Shakespeare, ib, n; visit to
Bennet Langton in Lincolnshire, ib; to
Easton-Mauduit vicarage, ib; forms ac-
quaintance with the Thrales, ib; cap-
tivated by Mrs. Thrale, 271; becomes
an intimate of the family, 272; its ef-
fects in diverting his melancholy, ib;
his sympathies with Grub-street mise-
ries, ib; summoned to a distressed au-
thor (Goldsmith), ib, 273; rescues him
from arrest and sells the Vicar of Wake-
field for 60l., ib; opinion of Goldsmith's
novel and poem, and of the conduct of
the bookseller, 275; on the price given
for the Vicar, ib; his commendations of
the Traveller, ib; prefers it to the Vicar
of Wakefield, ib; corrects the proof-
sheets, ib; prepares notice of it in the
Critical Review, ib; pronounces it the
finest poem since the death of Pope,
277; corrects Goldsmith as to the mean-
ing of his own verse, 279, 280; defends
Goldsmith from the charge of imitating
him, 281; writes for Smart in the
Universal Visitor, 290; discovers his
astounding agreement with Gardener,
ib; discontinues his services, ib; op-
poses Garrick's admission to the
Literary Club, 298; resists the solicita-
tions of Reynolds, Thrale, and Haw-
kins, ib; brings out his edition of
Shakespeare, 301; receives his doctor's
degree from the University of Dublin,

Hawkins, 236; his powers of conversa-
tion, 239, 240; contrast and discussions
with Burke, 240, 241; frolic with Lang-
ton and Beauclerc, 242; his introduc-
tion to Boswell at Tom Davies's, 248;
interview described, ib; his antipathy
to Scotland, ib; his rebuff to Boswell's
first approach, ib; friendship com-
menced, 248, 249; suppers at the Mitre,
249; declares his liking for Boswell,
ib; defends Goldsmith, ib; on vice and
virtue, ib, n; suppers at the Turk's
Head, ib; his kindness to a fallen wo-
man, ib; accompanies Boswell on his
way to Utrecht, 250; his pensioners,
252 n; his kindness to the poor, ib, n;
fondness for tea, 252; levees in Inner
Temple-lane, 253; receives visit from
the Countess de Boufflers, 254; visit to
Goldsmith in his chambers, 255; his
kindness to poor Kit Smart, 258; re-
leases him from the madhouse, ib; his

ib; still call himself plain Mister, ib, ";
takes a house in a court off Fleet-
street, ib; receives Miss Williams and
Robert Levett, ib; his opinion of M. de
Buffon, 303 n; light in which he re-
garded Voltaire, ib; his careless treat-
ment of books, 305; quarrel with Gar-
rick, ib; charges him with liking the
players' text better than the author's
ib; his inconsistencies about Garrick,
ib, n; charged by Garrick with de-
ficiency of sense of high genius, 306;
gloom and suffering gather round the
great moralist, 307; excuses himself for
writing little in later life, ib, n; noble
remark, ib, n; his dislike of the Rock-
ingham party, 310; prepared for
Burke's success, ib; opinion of Field-
ing, 322; estimate of the Vicar of Wake-
field, ib; becomes subject to fits of
morbid melancholy, II. 3; carried off
by the Thrales, ib; his services in

calling up another generation of wri-[
ters, 16; the club again united, 21; in-
terview with the king, ib, 22; details
the conversation at Reynolds's, ib;
opinions on the question of patronage,
25; his entry with Garrick into Lon-
don, ib, n; character of Garrick, ib;
desire of superior minds to relax with
inferior, 42; uneasy about his pension,
54 n; exercises his wit against Gold-
smith, 63; attends the rehearsal of the
Good-Natured Man, 72; his kindness to
Goldsmith, 75, 76; opinions of the
comedies of the Good-Natured Man, and
False Delicacy, 76; habit of abbreviat-
ing his friends' names, 78; his views
upon the question of trade, 88 n; visit
to Oxford, 96; followed by Boswell
there, ib; return to London, ib; dinners
at Crown and Anchor, b; "tossing
and goring several persons," ib, 97 n:
noblo saying as to Bickerstaff, 103,
104 n; definition of the character of
Kenrick, 104; opinion as to writing an
author down, ib, 105 n; point of agree-
ment between him and General Ogle-
thorpe, 106, 107; declines reading
Hume on account of his infidelity, 114,
115; opinion of Garrick's prologues
and epilogues, 121 n; on waiting for a
single guest at dinner, 125 n; recitation
of the Dunciad, 126; attacks on Bos-
well, 127; habit of overcharging the
characteristics of his friends, 135;
character of Reynolds, 135, 136 n, 137;
value of his maxims for the conduct of
life, 140; specimens of his manly wis-
dom, ib, n; affecting and noble re-
mark, ib; on Goldsmith's conversation,
141, 143, 144; inconsistency of his dicta
with respect to his friends, ib; dislike
of Mason, yet enjoyment of the Heroic:
Epistle, 148; Shebbeare's pension, ib;
his next neighbour in the pension list,
ib; plunges into party-war with the
False Alarm, 149; attacked in the House
of Commons, ib; defended by Fitz-
herbert, ib; thinks the Deserted Village
inferior to the Traveller, 153; noble
charity to a wretched girl, 157; his
summary of Goldsmith's style in prose,
171 n; why great lords and ladies did
not like his company, 175, 176 n; his
opinion on Chatterton, 189 n; laughs
like a rhinoceros, 192, 193, 197 n;
opinion as to places of public amuse-
ment, 196; opinion upon card-playing,
198; and upon gambling, ib, 199 n; be-
lieves Burke to be author of Junius,

210 n; attacked in the House as a paid
pensioner, 214; visit to Lord North on
the Falkland Islands pamphlet, ib; ex-
plains Goldsmith's fame to Boswell,
228; put to the torture about squeezed
oranges, 229 n; inflicts horrible shocks
on his biographer, 229, ib, n; his opinion
of the value of a literary life, 230 n;
opinion about anecdotes 231 n;
worsted in argument by Goldsmith,
232; revenges himself, ib; his violence
in retort, 233; his belief in ghosts, ib,n;
declaration that Goldsmith deserved a
place in Westminster Abbey, 239; on
changes in manners and social life,
241 n; statement of differences in pro-
nunciation, 249 n; admirable saying
on Mrs. Montagu, 251 ; interferes
with Colman concerning Goldsmith's
comedy, 258; opinion of She Stoops to
Conquer, 259; presides at the tavern
dinner the night of the performance of
She Stoops to Conquer, 264; description
of the great end of comedy, 269; char-
acter of Goldsmith's defence; 275; de-
ficiency in stage-criticism, 282, 283 n;
introduction of Boswell to the club,
289; betrayed into a pun, 291 n; argu-
ment on toleration with Toplady and
Dr. Mayo, 292; how to treat an ad-
versary, 294 n; his talk about Gold-
smith's envy, 295, 296; his confession
as to his own, 296; opinion as to Gold-
smith being his biographer, 297; char-
acter of himself, ib; affection for Beau-
clerc and Langton, ib; summary of
Goldsmith's character, 309; admirable
remark on dress, ib, n; meets a school-
fellow after forty-nine years, 311 n;
silent rebuke to Goldsmith for his ex-
travagance, 324; writes the epitaph
for Goldsmith's monument, 332; dif-
ferences of opinion concerning it in
the club, ib, 333; declines to profane
the walls of Westminster Abbey with
an English inscription, 333; the epi-
taph, ib, 334.

Johnson, Mr., husband of Jane Gold-
smith, 1. 7.

Johnson, Mrs. (Jane Goldsmith), writes
about an unappropriated legacy of
uncle Contarine's, II. 129; Goldsmith's
kind desires in her favour, 130; her
condition after Goldsmith's death, 354.
Jones, the Oriental scholar, correspond-
ence with the Bishop of St. Asaph,
1. 234; elected member of the club, II.
286.

Jones, Oliver, Master of Elphin school,

I. 6; Charles Goldsmith a pupil, b;|
marriage of his daughter Anne, ib.
Jones, Mr., East India director, 1. 97;
obtains Goldsmith a medical appoint-
ment at Coromandel, 107.
Jones, Mr. Griffith, editor of the Public
Ledger, 1. 187, writer of children's
books for Newbery, ib.

Junius, first appearance of Letters (under
different signatures) in the Public Ad-
vertiser, II. 52, 99 ; their character
and style, 52; ferocious attacks on
ministers, 53; Mr. Herman Merivale on
authorship of, 55-57; proves a terrible
assailant, 99; takes the signature of
Junius, 119; the nature and power of
his letters described, ib; the increased
audacity of his libels, 150; their vic-
tory over the law, ib; the authorship
charged on Burke, 209 n; attack upon
Garrick, 210; why it could not be, ib.
See FRANCIS.

Jura, Mont, Goldsmith flushes wood-
cocks on its summit, I. 50.

K.

KAUFFMAN, Angelica, the artist, II. 114;
patronised by Reynolds, ib; her por-
trait of him, ib; her unfortunate mar-
riage, ib; made member of the Royal
Academy, ib.

Kearney, Dr., associate of Goldsmith in
the university, 1. 19; subsequently fel-
low, ib.

Kelly, Mr. Cornelius, the "wag of Ar-
dagh," 1. 15; plays trick on Goldsmith
in sending him to Squire Featherston's,
ib; origin of the scene in She Stoops to
Conquer, ib.

Kelly, Hugh, member of the Wednesday-
club, II. 42; great favourite with Mr.
Ballantyne, 43; staymaker's apprentice
in Dublin, 44; compelled to resume the
employment in London, ib; becomes
writer to an attorney, ib; employed by
Newbery on the Public Ledger, ib; be-
comes stage critic, ib; caricatures
Churchill's style in his Thespis, ib; re-
commends himself to the notice of
Garrick, ib; how Johnson treated him,
ib, n; taken up by Garrick in rivalry to
Goldsmith, 69; a master of the senti-
mental school, 70; writes the comedy
of False Delicacy, 72; prologue and
epilogue written by Garrick, ib; its
singular success, ib; receives public
breakfast at the Chapter coffee-house,
ib; translated into German and Por-

tuguese, ib; placed on the French stage
by a translation of Madame Ricco-
boni's, ib; withdrawal from the Wed-
nesday-club, 82, 83; differences be-
tween him and Goldsmith, ib; becomes
editor of the Public Ledger, 83; moves
into chambers in the Temple, b; dis-
suades Goldsmith from marrying his
sister-in-law, ib; meeting in the Covent-
garden green-room, ib; quarrel be-
come irreconcilable, ib; author of the
novel of Louisa Mildmay, 84; not justi-
fied in the tone he assumed, ib; an
imitator of Goldsmith's follies, ib;
struggling for a pension, 163 ; gra-
titude to Garrick, ib; sudden close of
his dramatic career, 199; becomes a
ministerial hack, ib; his comedy, A
Word to the Wise, produced by Garrick,
ib; damned for his support of the
ministry, ib; failure of a second play
at Covent-garden, ib; his character as
given by Davies, ib, n; School for Wives,
312; temporary success, ib; foisted on
the public as the production of Major
Addington, 313, 314; his grief at Gold-
smith's funeral, 332.

Kenrick, reviews Goldsmith's Enquiry in
the Monthly Review, 1. 137; spirit of the
review, ib, 138; personality of its allu-
sions, ib; makes apology for them, 190;
assails Johnson's edition of Shake-
speare, 301; writes the play of Falstaff's
Wedding, 306; acted by Garrick at
Drury-lane, ib; his gross attack upon
Garrick, II. 103; lectures at the Devil
tavern on perpetual motion, 104; the
Ishmael of criticism, ib; attacks the
Traveller, ib; Goldsmith's evil genius,
105; writes for the Gentleman's Journal,
ib; libel on Goldsmith, 194; shrinks
from the consequences, ib; attacks
Goldsmith in the London Packet, 270 n;
his authorship of the libel denied,
274 n.

Kippis, Dr., contributor to the Monthly
Review, 1. 68, 90; anecdote of Gold-
smith's and Johnson's oratory, 216; his
Biographia Britannica, II. 324 n; failure
of the enterprise, ib.
Knight's, Miss, reminiscence of Gold-
smith, II. 311, 312 n.

L.

Lady's Magazine, established by Mr.
Wilkie, 1. 157; contributed to by Gold-
smith, ib; he becomes its editor, and
raises its circulation, 202.

of

ac-

Langton, Bennet, a frequenter of Da-
vies's in Russell-street, I. 213; original
member of the Literary Club, 232; his
disposition and character, 241, 242; ad-
miration of the Rambler induces him,
when only eighteen, to seek Johnson,
ib; Johnson's affection for him, 242;
his hereditary descent, ib; enters
Trinity College, Oxford, ib; Johnson,
visits him there, ib; becomes
quainted with Topham Beauclerc,
grandson of Duke of St. Albans, ib;
their night frolic with Johnson, ib; his
scholarship and tolerance of character,
243; sketches of his character by Mr.
Best and Miss Hawkins, ib, n; supplies
the name 66 Auburn" for Goldsmith's
poem, II. 158; marriage with one of the
countess dowagers of Rothes, 218; let-
ter from Goldsmith, ib, 219; Johnson's
affection for him, 297.

Lawder, Mr., married to Jane Contarine,

1. 18; letter from Goldsmith to Mrs.
Lawder, 105, 106; his complaint of her
husband's indifference, 121.

Leasowes, the, visit of Jupiter Carlyle
to, I. 125 n; paper by Goldsmith, II.
241.

Lee, Colonel, his account to the Prince

of Poland of the amazing powers of
Burke, II. 14; general in the American
army of Independence, ib, n.

Le Grout, the miniature painter, 1. 169;
portrait of Garrick's father, ib; Gar-
rick's humour in describing it, ib.
Lennox, Mrs., author of the Female
Quixote, II. 110; supposed to have been
assisted by Johnson in a work called
Shakespeare Illustrated, ib; writes the
play of the Sister, ib; produced by Col-
man at Covent-garden, ib; its ill-suc-
cess, ib; supplies character to Bur-
goyne for the Heiress, 111; epilogue
written for her by Goldsmith, ib.
Lessingham, Mrs., actress, II. 68; begins
life in Derrick's garret, ib, n.

(Vol. I.):- Charles Dickens to the au-
thor (fac-simile) p. x-xx; Gold-
smith to his brother-in-law Hodson,
28; to Bryanton, 35; to uncle Con-
tarine, ib, 36; Mr. Gavan Duffy to the
author, 36, 37 n; Goldsmith to uncle
Contarine, 40; to Hodson, 92-94; to
Mills, 99, 100; Faulkner to Derrick,
100 n; to Bryanton, 101-103; to Mrs.
Lawder, 105, 106; to Hodson, 107-109;
Dr. Wilson to Derrick, 108 n; to Grif-
fiths, 118; to his brother Henry, 121-
123; Hawkins to Garrick, 130, 131 n;
Johnson to Lord Chesterfield, 149; to
Thomas Warton, ib, n; Ralph to Gar-
rick, 161-162 n; Garrick to his father,
169; Swynfen to Peter Garrick, 172;
Garrick to his brother, 173, 174, 175,
177, 178, 179, 180, 181; Faulkner to
Derrick, 203 n; Campbell to Percy,
205; Goldsmith to Newbery, 207, 208;
Dr. Wilson to Derrick, 216 n; Gold-
smith to James Dodsley, 258; O'Brien
to George Garrick, 268, 269 n; Gold-
smith to the editor of the St. James's
Chronicle, 287 n; Dr. Wilson to Derrick,
288, 289 n; General Conway to Horace
Walpole, 295, 296n; Garrick to General
Fitzwilliams, 298, 299 n; Gray to
Mason, 317 n; Mr. Mangin to the au-
thor, 326-328; Goldsmith to his mother,
328-330; to Bryanton, 330, 331; to uncle
Contarine, 332; to same, 332, 333; to
same, 333, 334.

Letters (Vol. II.):-Gilbert Walmsley to
Colson, 25 n; Garrick to Sir John
Fielding, 27 n; Harris to Hoadley,
33 n; Goldsmith to Colman (fac-simile),
34-36; to Garrick, 37; Garrick to Gold-
smith, ib; Garrick to Lord Rochford,
43 n; Hume to Madame de Boufflers,
49 n; Smollett to Hume, 55 n; Mr. Her-
man Merivale to the author, 55-57;
Beattie to Forbes, 62 n; Gray to
Nicholls, 66 n; Bickerstaff to Colman,
69; Burke to Shackleton, 100 n; Mr.
Macready to the author, 104; Walpole
to Mann, 106 n; Goldsmith to the
Misses Horneck (in verse), 113; Wal-
pole to Mann, 122, 123 n; Goldsmith to
Maurice Goldsmith, 129, 130; Hoadly
to Garrick, 143 n; Gray to Walpole,
151, 152 n; Chatterton to his mother, 162;
Kelly to Garrick, 163 n; Chatterton to
his mother, 164 n; to his sister, ib; to
Catcott, ib, n; Goldsmith to Reynolds,
165, 166; same to same, 167, 168; Lord
Lyttelton to author, 170 n; Nicholls to

Gray, 179 n; letter of Walpole's, 186;|
Walpole to Mann, 198 n; Burke to
Tommy Townshend, 209n; letter of Dr.
Thomas Campbell, 210 n; letter of Mr.
Macaulay's, ib. n; Boswell to Burke, ib;
Philip Francis to Burke, 212 n; the
Rev. Mr. Harness to the author, 216 n;
Goldsmith to Bennet Langton, 218,
219; Goldsmith to Mrs. Bunbury, 222,
223; Goldsmith to Cradock. 227; same
to same, ib; Mr. Browning to the
author, 238 n; Richard Burke to Gar-
rick, 242; Gainsborough to Garrick,
243 n; George Steevens to Garrick,
244 n; Walpole to Mason, 255 n; Lord
Nugent (the late) to the author, 256,
257 n; Goldsmith to Colman, 258;
Goldsmith to Garrick, ib; O'Brien to
Colman, 261 n; Goldsmith to Cradock,
262, 263; George Steevens to Bishop
Percy, 263 n; John Oakman to Gold-
smith, 270; Kenrick to Goldsmith, 270,
271; Goldsmith to the public, 273 n,
274; Hannah More to her sister, 282 n;
Johnson to Goldsmith, 287 n; Gold-
smith to Burney, 299; Garrick to
Burney, 300 n; Malone to Percy, 301 n;
Beauclerc to Lord Charlemont, 305 n;
Reynolds to Beattie, ib, n; Goldsmith
to Garrick, 310; same to same; 311;
Cumberland to Garrick, 318, 319;
Burke to Garrick, 322 n; Goldsmith to
Nourse, 323 n; same to same, ib; Wal-
pole to Mason, 328 n; Johnson to Bos-
well, 329, 330; Johnson to Langton,
330 n; Johnson to Miss Reynolds, ib, n;
Mr. Thackeray to the author, b;
Maurice Goldsmith to Hawes, 331 n;
the Rev. Alfred Ainger to the author,
335; Shelburne to Chatham, 336; Percy
to Malone, 346; Campbell to Percy,
347; Mrs. Thrale to Johnson, ib, n;
Esther Goldsmith to Mr. Cooper
Walker, 348; Percy to Steevens, 349-
351; Steevens to Percy, 351; Percy to
Anderson, 351, 352; letter of Mr. Ro-
bert Cabbell Roffe, 353; Mr. Edwin
Roffe to the author, 354.

Letters from a Nobleman to his Son, pub-
lished anonymously by Goldsmith,
1. 226; supposed to be real, 227; trans-
lated by the wife of Brissot, ib; au-
thorship ascribed to Lords Chester-
field, Orrery, and Lyttelton, ib; where
and how they were written, ib;

II. 41.

Lettres Persanes, supplies hints for Gold-
smith's Citizen of the World, 1. 188.
Le Vasseur, Mme., Rousseau's servant-

maid, 1. 308; brought to England by
Boswell, ib.

Levett, Robert, the humble companion of
Johnson, 1. 223; George Steevens's ac-
count of him, ib, n.

Lewes, Lee, the actor, plays Lofty the
year before Goldsmith's death, I. 77 n;
the harlequin of the theatre, 261;
Shuter suggests him for Young Mar-
low, ib; Goldsmith grateful for his
service, 268; writes him an epilogue,
ib; goes to hear it spoken, 294; strange
silence of Lewes (in his Memoirs) as to
Goldsmith, ib, n.

Leyden, Goldsmith visits it as medical
student, I. 40; letters from, ib; nature
of his studies there, 41; obtains em-
ployment as a teacher, ib; wins at play
and loses, ib; encounters every form of
distress, ib; borrows money from Dr.
Ellis, ib; spends it in buying flower-
roots for his uncle, 42; leaves Leyden
with one guinea, one shirt, and his
flute, ib.

Lichtenberg's (a German traveller) let-
ters, II. 224 n; his description of Gar-
rick's acting, ib.

Life of Bolingbroke, Goldsmith's, quoted,
I. 13 n; published and criticised, n.
172, 173.

Life of Parnell, Goldsmith's, its definition
of the language of poetry, 1. 278; allu-
sion in it to his uncle and father, 11. 128;
published by Davies, 171; its character
and style, ib; strictures on the expletive
school of poetry, ib.

Lissoy, 1. 6; schoolmistress of, 7; place of
Goldsmith's education, ib; identifica-
tion of, with the "sweet Auburn" of
the Deserted Village, II. 158, 159; Mr.
Hogan's restoration of, ib, 160 n.
Literary patronage, opinions of Lord
Lytton, Mr. Carlyle, and Lord Stan-
hope, on, I. 140, 141 n, ib, 142 n.
Literature, its state and condition when
Goldsmith first embarked in it, 1. 65;
political conduct of its votaries, 66;
fate of authors contrasted, 67; Wal-
pole's opinion on Burke's "author-
ism 68; a good old English gentle-
man on, 104 n; its requirements in
England, 145; state of, in 1759, 147;
magazines, the rage of the day, ib, 148:
small chance of success in times of
profligate politics, I. 16; become one
vast engine of libel, ib.

Lloyd, Charles, Churchill's friend, 1. 198;
sups Goldsmith, and makes him pay,
198, 199,