others, I may address the beautiful apostrophe of Dante

to Virgil,

Tu se' lo mio maestro, e 'l mio autore :
Tu se' solo colui, da cu' io tolsi

Lo bello stile, che m' ha fatto onore.

SUNNYSIDE, Aug. 1, 1849.

W. I.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Birth and Parentage.-Characteristics of the Goldsmith Race.—

Poetical Birthplace.-Goblin House.-Scenes of Boyhood.-

Lissoy.-Picture of a Country Parson.-Goldsmith's Schoolmis-

tress.-Byrne, the Village Schoolmaster.-Goldsmith's Hornpipe

and Epigram.-Uncle Contarine.-School Studies and School

Sports.-Mistakes of a Night..

CHAPTER II.

Improvident Marriages in the Goldsmith Family.-Goldsmith at the

University.—Situation of a Sizer.—Tyranny of Wilder, the Tu-

tor.-Pecuniary Straits.-Street-Ballads.-College Riot.

lows Walsh.-College Prize.-A Dance interrupted.....

CHAPTER III.

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Goldsmith rejected by the Bishop.-Second Sally to see the World.—

Takes Passage for America.—Ship sails without him.—Return

on Fiddle-back.-A Hospitable Friend.-The Counsellor....... 53

CHAPTER IV.

Sallies forth as a Law Student.-Stumbles at the Outset.-Cousin

Jane and the Valentine.-A Family Oracle.-Sallies forth as a

Student of Medicine.-Hocus-Pocus of a Boarding-House.-

Transformations of a Leg of Mutton.-The Mock Ghost.—

Sketches of Scotland.-Trials of Toadyism.-A Poet's Purse for

a Continental Tour

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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 Provi-

dent Flute.-Sojourn at Paris.-Sketch of Voltaire.-Travelling

Shifts of a Philosophic Vagabond...

CHAPTER VI.

Landing in England.—Shifts of a Man without Money.-The Pestle

and Mortar.-Theatricals in a Barn.-Launch upon London.—

A City Night-Scene.-Struggles 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.-Pertness in Return.

-Expensive Charities.-The Griffiths and the 'Monthly Re-

view."-Toils of a Literary Hack.-Rupture with the Griffiths.. 99

CHAPTER VIII.

Newbery, of Picture-Book Memory.—How to keep up Appearances.-

Miseries of Authorship.-A poor Relation.-Letter to Hodson... 105

CHAPTER IX.

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..

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER X.

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.

CHAPTER XI.

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Publication of "The Inquiry."-Attacked by Griffiths' Review.-

Kenrick the Literary Ishmaelite.-Periodical Literature.-Gold-

smith's Essays.-Garrick as a Manager. Smollett and his

Schemes.-Change of Lodgings.-The Robin Hood Club....... 145

CHAPTER XII.

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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.

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 Goldsmith....

CHAPTER XIV.

Hogarth a Visitor at Islington; His Character.-Street Studies.-

Sympathies between Authors and Painters.-Sir Joshua Rey-

nolds; His Character; His Dinners.-The Literary Club; Its

Members.-Johnson's Revels with Lanky and Beau.-Gold-

smith at the Club...

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