CHAPTER XXXV.

Broken health.--Dissipation and debt.-The Irish widow.-Practical jokes.-Scrub.-A mis-

quoted pun.-Malagrida.-Goldsmith proved to be a fool.-Distressed ballad singers.-The

Poet at Ranelagh.

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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.

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CHAPTER XXXVII.

Theatrical delays.-Negotiations with Colman.-Letter to Garrick.-Croaking of the mana-

ger.-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.

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CHAPTER XXXVIII.

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

CHAPTER XXXIX.

Boswell in Holy-Week.-Dinner at Oglethorpe's.--Dinner at Paoli's.-The policy of truth.

Goldsmith affects independence of royalty.-Paoli's compliment.-Johnson's eulogium on

the fiddle.-Question about suicide.-Boswell's subserviency.

CHAPTER XL.

Changes in the Literary Club.-Johnson's objection to Garrick.-Election of Boswell,

CHAPTER XLI.

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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 Milor.-A farewell visit.

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CHAPTER XLII.

Project of a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.-Disappointment.--Negligent authorship.-Ap-

plication for a pension.-Beattie's Essay on Truth.-Public adulation.-A high-minded

rebuke.

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CHAPTER XLIII.

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

pation without gayety.-Cradock in town-friendly sympathy-a parting scene-an invi-

tation to pleasure.

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CHAPTER XLIV.

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-

his friends.—A last word respecting the Jessamy Bride.

CHAPTER XLV.

The funeral. The monument.-The epitaph.-Concluding reflections.

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