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CHAPTER V.
The Agreeable Fellow-Passengers. - Risks from Friends
picked up by the Wayside. - Sketches of Hull and the
Dutch. Shifts while a poor Student at Leyden. -
The Tulip-Speculation. The Provident Flute. So-
journ at Paris. -Sketch of Voltaire.
Shifts of a Philosophic Vagabond.
CHAPTER VI.
Travelling
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Landing in England. - Shifts of a Man without Money.
The Pestle and Mortar. -Theatricals in a Barn.
Launch upon London. - A City Night-Scene. - Strug-
gles with Penury. Miseries of a Tutor.- A Doctor
in the Suburb. Poor Practice and Second-hand
Finery. A Tragedy in Embryo.-Project of the
Written Mountains
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CHAPTER VII.
Life of a Pedagogue. — Kindness to Schoolboys. - Pert-
ness in Return. - Expensive Charities. — The Griffiths
and the "Monthly Review."-Toils of a Literary
Hack. Rupture with the Griffiths
CHAPTER VIII.
Newbery, of Picture-Book Memory. - How to keep up
Appearances. Miseries of Authorship. A poor Re-
lation. Letter to Hodson
CHAPTER IX.
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Hackney Authorship. - Thoughts of Literary Suicide.
Return to Peckham. - Oriental Projects. — Literary
Enterprise to raise Funds. —Letter to Edward Wells;
To Robert Bryanton. - Death of Uncle Contarine.
Letter to Cousin Jane
CHAPTER X.
Oriental Appointment; and Disappointment. — Exam-
ination at the College of Surgeons. How to procure
a Suit of Clothes. - Fresh Disappointment. - A Tale
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of Distress. The Suit of Clothes in Pawn. -- Punish-
ment 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
CHAPTER XI.
Publication of "The Inquiry." -Attacked by Griffiths'
Review. - Kenrick the Literary Ishmaelite. - Period-
ical Literature. - Goldsmith's Essays. Garrick as a
Manager. Smollett and his Schemes. - Change of
Lodgings. The Robin Hood Club
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
CHAPTER XIII.
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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.
and Goldsmith
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 . . 159
CHAPTER XV.
Johnson a Monitor to Goldsmith; Finds him in Distress
with his Landlady; Relieved by the "Vicar of Wake-
field." The Oratorio. -Poem of the "Traveller.".
The Poet and his Dog. - Success of the Poem. — Aston-
ishment of the Club. Observations on the Poem . 171
CHAPTER XVI.
New Lodgings. Johnson's Compliment. A Titled
Patron. The Poet at Northumberland House. - His
Independence of the Great. -The Countess of North-
umberland. "Edwin and Angelina." - Gosfield and
Lord Clare. Publication of Essays.- Evils of a Ris-
ing Reputation. — Hangers - on. — Job - Writing.
"Goody Two-shoes." A Medical Campaign. - Mrs.
Sidebotham
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CHAPTER XVII.
Publication of the "Vicar of Wakefield"; Opinions con-
cerning it: Of Dr. Johnson; Of Rogers the Poet; Of
Goethe; Its Merits; Exquisite Extract.-Attack by
Kenrick.Reply. — Book-Building. - Project of a
Comedy.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Social Position of Goldsmith; His Colloquial Contests
with Johnson.
Social Resorts.
tical Joke.
Man."
-The Shilling Whist-Club. -A Prac-
The Wednesday Club. - The "Tun of
The Pig-Butcher. - Tom King. - Hugh
Kelly. Glover and his Characteristics
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CHAPTER XX.
The Great Cham of Literature and the King. - Scene at
Sir Joshua Reynolds's. - Goldsmith accused of Jeal-
ousy. Negotiations with Garrick. - The Author and
the Actor; Their Correspondence
More Hack-Authorship. Tom Davies and the Roman
History. Canonbury Castle. - Political Authorship.
Pecuniary Temptation.
Elder
Death of Newbery the
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CHAPTER XXII.
Theatrical Manoeuvring. — The Comedy of "False Del-
icacy. First Performance of the "Good-natured
Conduct of Johnson. Conduct of the
Author. - Intermeddling of the Press
CHAPTER XXIII.
Burning the Candle at both Ends. - Fine Apartments.
Fine Furniture. Fine Clothes.-Fine Acquaintances.
Shoemaker's Holiday and Jolly-Pigeon Associates.
Peter Barlow, Glover, and the Hampstead Hoax.
Poor Friends among great Acquaintances
CHAPTER XXIV.
Reduced again to Book-Building. — Rural Retreat at
Shoemaker's Paradise. - Death of Henry Goldsmith;
Tributes to his Memory in the "Deserted Village"
CHAPTER XXV.
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Dinner at Bickerstaff's. — Hiffernan and his Impecuni-
osity. Kenrick's Epigram. -Johnson's Consolation.
Goldsmith's Toilet. The Bloom-colored Coat.
New Acquaintances; The Horneck's. A Touch of
Poetry and Passion. The Jessamy Bride
CHAPTER XXVI.
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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 253
Honors at the Royal Academy.-Letter to his Brother
Maurice. Family Fortunes. Jane Contarine and
the Miniature.- Portraits and Engravings. — School
Associations. Johnson and Goldsmith in Westminster
Abbey
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Publication of the "Deserted Village"; Notices and
Illustrations of it
CHAPTER XXIX.
The Poet among the Ladies; Description of his Person
and Manners. - Expedition to Paris with the Horneck
Family. The Traveller of Twenty and the Traveller
of Forty. Hickey, the Special Attorney.—An un-
lucky Exploit
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CHAPTER XXX.
Death of Goldsmith's Mother. Biography of Parnell.
Agreement with Davies for the History of Rome. - Life
of Bolingbroke. - The Haunch of Venison
CHAPTER XXXI.
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Dinner at the Royal Academy. - The Rowley Contro-
versy. Horace Walpole's Conduct to Chatterton. -
Johnson at Redcliffe Church. - Goldsmith's History of
England. - Davies's Criticism. - Letter to Bennet
Langton
CHAPTER XXXII.
Marriage of Little Comedy.- Goldsmith at Barton.-
Practical Jokes at the Expense of his Toilet. — Amuse-
ments at Barton. - Aquatic Misadventure
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Dinner at General Oglethorpe's. Anecdotes of the
General. — Dispute about Duelling. - Ghost Stories
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Mr. Joseph Cradock.- An Author's Confidings. — An
Amanuensis. — Life at Edgeware. - Goldsmith Con-
juring. George Colman.
- The Fantoccini
CHAPTER XXXV.
The Irish
Broken Health. - Dissipation and Debts.
Widow. Practical Jokes. - Scrub. -A Misquoted
Pun.-Malagrida. Goldsmith proved to be a Fool.
Distressed Ballad-Singers. — The Poet at Ranelagh
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