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Oriental appointment—and disappointment.-Examination at the College of
Surgeons.-How to procure a suit of clothes.-Fresh disappointment.-A
tale of distress.-The suit of clothes in pawn.-Punishment for doing an
act of charity.—Gayeties of Green-Arbor Court.—Letter to his brother.—
Life of Voltaire.—Scroggins, an attempt at mock heroic poetry, 107
CHAPTER XI.
Publication of "The Inquiry."-Attacked by Griffiths' Review.-Kenrick, the
literary Ishmaelite.-Periodical literature.-Goldsmith's essays.-Garrick
as a manager.-Smollett and his schemes.-Change of lodgings.-The
Robin Hood club,
124
CHAPTER XII.
New lodgings.-Visits of ceremony.-Hangers-on.-Pilkington and the white
mouse. Introduction to Dr. Johnson.-Davies and his bookshop.-Pretty
Mrs. Davies.-Foote and his projects.-Criticism of the cudgel,
132
CHAPTER XIII.
Oriental projects.-Literary jobs.-The Cherokee chiefs.-Merry Islington
and the White Conduit House.-Letters on the History of England.-
James Boswell.-Dinner of Davies.-Anecdotes of Johnson and Gold-
smith,
139
CHAPTER XIV.
Hogarth a visitor at Islington-his character.-Street studies.-Sympathies
between authors and painters.-Sir Joshua Reynolds-his character-his
dinners. The Literary Club-its members.-Johnson's revels with Lanky
and Beau.-Goldsmith at the club,
147
CHAPTER XV.
Johnson a monitor to Goldsmith-finds him in distress with his landlady-
relieved by the Vicar of Wakefield. The oratorio.-Poem of the Travel-
ler. The poet and his dog.-Success of the poem.-Astonishment of the
club.-Observations on the poem,
158
CHAPTER XVI.
New lodgings.-Johnson's compliment.-A titled patron-The poet at
Northumberland House.-His independence of the great.-The Countess
of Northumberland.-Edwin and Angelina.-Gosford and Lord Clare.-
Publication of Essays. Evils of a rising reputation. — Hangers-on.—
Job writing.-Goody Two-shoes.-A medical campaign.-Mrs. Sidebo-
tham, . 165
CHAPTER XVII.
Publication of the Vicar of Wakefield- opinions concerning it—of Dr.
Johnson-of Rogers the poet-of Goëthe-its merits.- Exquisite ex-
tract.-Attack by Kenrick.-Reply.-Book-building.-Project of a com-
edy,
174
CHAPTER XVIII.
Social condition of Goldsmith-his colloquial contests with Johnson.-Anec-
dotes and illustrations,
183
CHAPTER XIX.
Social resorts. The shilling whist club.—A practical joke.—The Wednesday
club.-The tun of man.'-The pig butcher.-Tom King.-Hugh Kelly.-
Glover and his characteristics,
190
The Great Cham of literature and the King-Scene at Sir Joshua Reynolds's-
Goldsmith accused of jealousy.-Negotiations with Garrick.-The author
and the actor-their correspondence,
195
CHAPTER XXI.
More hack authorship.-Tom Davies and the Roman History.-Canonbury
Castle.-Political authorship.—Pecuniary temptation.-Death of Newbery
the elder,
. 202
CHAPTER XXII.
Theatrical manoeuvering.-The comedy of "False Delicacy."-First perform-
ance of "The Good-natured Man."-Conduct of Johnson.-Conduct of the
author.-Intermeddling of the press,
206
CHAPTER XXIII.
Burning the candle at both ends.-Fine apartments.-Fine furniture.-Fine
clothes.-Fine acquaintances.--Shoemaker's holiday and jolly pigeon asso-
ciates-Peter Barlow, Glover, and the Hampstead hoax.-Poor friends
among great acquaintances,
.
212
CHAPTER XXIV.
Reduced again to book-building.-Rural retreat at Shoemaker's Paradise.-
Death of Henry Goldsmith-tributes to his memory in the Deserted Vil-
lage,
218
CHAPTER XXV.
Dinner at Bickerstaff's.- Hiffernan and his impecuniosity.- Kenrick's epi-
gram.-- Johnson's consolation.-- Goldsmith's toilet.-The bloom-colored
coat.--New acquaintances.-The Hornecks.-A touch of poetry and pas-
sion. The Jessamy Bride,
222
CHAPTER XXVI.
Goldsmith in the Temple.-Judge Day and Grattan.-Labor and dissipation.-
Publication of the Roman History.-Opinions of it.-History of Animated
Nature.-Temple rookery.-Anecdotes of a spider,
229
CHAPTER XXVII.
Honors at the Royal Academy.- Letter to his brother Maurice. -- Family
fortunes-Jane Contarine and the miniature.-Portraits and engrav-
ings. School associations.-Johnson and Goldsmith in Westminster
Abbey,
238
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Publication of the Deserted Village--notices and illustrations of it,
CHAPTER XXIX.
245
The poet among the ladies--description of his person and manners.-Ex-
pedition to Paris with the Horneck family.-The traveller of twenty and
the traveller of forty.- Hickey, the special attorney.- An unlucky ex-
ploit,
253
CHAPTER XXX.
Death of Goldsmith's mother.
Biography of Parnell. Agreement with
Davies for the History of Rome.-Life of Bolingbroke. The haunch of ven-
ison,
264
Dinner at the Royal Academy.-The Rowley controversy.-Horace Walpole's
conduct to Chatterton.-Johnson at Redcliffe Church.-Goldsmith's History
of England.-Davies's criticism.-Letter to Bennet Langton,
269
CHAPTER XXXII.
Marriage of Little Comedy.- Goldsmith at Barton.-Practical jokes at
the expense of his toilet.-Amusements at Barton.--Aquatic misadven-
ture,
275
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Dinner at General Oglethorpe's.-Anecdotes of the general.-Dispute about
duelling.-Ghost stories,
279
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Mr. Joseph Cradock.-An author's confidings.-An amanuensis.-Life at Edge-
ware.-Goldsmith conjuring.-George Colman.-The Fantoccini,
284
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,
293
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Invitation to Christmas.--The spring-velvet coat.-The haymaking wig.-
The mischances of loo.--The fair culprit.-A dance with the Jessamy
Bride,
303