CHAPTER XXXV.

Broken health. - Dissipation and debts. The Irish_widow.- Practical

jokes. Scrub. A misquoted pun.- Malagrida. - Goldsmith proved to

be a fool.-Distressed ballad-singers. The Poet at Ranelagh..

326

CHAPTER XXXVI.

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Invitation to Christmas.

The mischances of loo.

Bride.

The spring velvet coat. The haymaking wig.

The fair culprit. - A dance with the Jessamy

338

CHAPTER XXXVII.

Theatrical delays. -Negotiations with Colman.-Letter to Garrick.-

Croaking of the manager. - Naming of the play. She Stoops to Conquer.

-Foote's Primitive Puppet-Show, Piety on Pattens. First performance

of the comedy.- Agitation of the author.- Success. - Colman squibbed

out of town..

.... 344

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

A newspaper attack. The Evans affray. - Johnson's comment.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

357

Boswell in Holy-Week. Dinner at Oglethorpe's. - Dinner at Paoli's. -

The policy of truth.- Goldsmith affects independence of royalty. - Pao-

li's compliment.-Johnson's eulogium on the fiddle.- Question about

suicide. Boswell's subserviency.

364

CHAPTER XL.

Changes in the Literary Club. — Johnson's objection to Garrick. - Election

of Boswell.
375

CHAPTER XLI.

Dinner at Dilley's. - Conversations on natural history.- Intermeddling of

Boswell. -Dispute about toleration. - Johnson's rebuff to Goldsmith-his

apology.-Man-worship.-Doctors Major and Minor.-A farewell visit. 380

CHAPTER XLII.

Project of a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.-Disappointment.-Negli-

gent authorship. Application for a pension.-Beattie's Essay on Truth.

-Public adulation. A high-minded rebuke.
387

CHAPTER XLIII.

Toil without hope. The poet in the green-room-in the flower garden-at

Vauxhall-dissipation without gayety.- Cradock in town-friendly sym-

pathy-a parting scene-an invitation to pleasure.

CHAPTER XLIV.

394

A return to drudgery-forced gayety-retreat to the country-the poem of

Retaliation.-Portrait of Garrick-of Goldsmith-of Reynolds.-Illness

of the poet-his death-grief of his friends. A last word respecting the

Jessamy Bride.

402

CHAPTER XLV.

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The funeral. - The monument. The epitaph. Concluding reflec-

tions.

414

Temple, Garden Court-
July 19th

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I am

very

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you,

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your tenderness in shortening

the interval

of my expec

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last I shall I can't help feeling a secret Latisfaction that poets

likely to

for the future have a protector who de Cline, taking advantage

their dependent futuation, and

forms that un/ ottance which

may

be acquired by titthij

with their anxieties.

و

am Dear Sir with

the greatest esteem your most obedient humble servant:

Oliver Goldsmith.