p. 11). Cradock says he practised as an apothecary in Newman Street; and it is further alleged of him that he once paid a small debt with an undrawn lottery ticket which came up a prize of £20,000. In 1807, according to Annesley Strean, his son, Oliver Goldsmith Hodson, had succeeded to the paternal estate. The Dr. Hunter, mentioned at p. 258, is Dr. William Hunter; and the closing lines of the second letter (p. 260) tend to confirm the belief that Goldsmith never re-visited Ireland after he left it in 1752.
"ADVENTURES of a Strolling | Bunbury, Mrs., see "Horneck,
BALLANTYNE, William, 157. Barlow, Peter, 175. Beatty, John, 13, 17, 46. "Beauties of English Poesy," 151.
Beauclerk, Topham, 111, 224; quoted, 225. "Beau Tibbs," 98. Bee, The, 78-81; quoted, 48, 81; verses in, 82-83. "Bolingbroke, Life of." 198. "Bookseller of the Last Cen- tury, A," 102, 104. Boswell, James, 112, 117, 139, 195, 206, 221, 232, 237-239, 243, 244, 248, 249; quoted, 134, 181-183. Bott, Mr. Edmund, 178. Breakneck Steps, 66, 71. Brick Court, Middle Temple (No. 2), 169, 206, 231. British Magazine, The, 43, 86, 88, 89, 90. Brooke's System of Natural History," Preface to, 107. Bryanton, Robert, of Bally- mulvey, 17, 22, 57, 58, 69; letters to, 28-29, 58. Bunbury, Henry William, the Caricaturist, 192, 235.
Burke, Edmund, 111, 162, 196,
226, 228, 231, 245, 246. Busy Body, The, 77, 82. Byrne, Thomas, 5, 34, 187.
CAMPBELL, Mr., 9. Canonbury House, 104, 153. "Captivity, Oratorio of the," 233 n.
Chamier, Mr., 111. Chatterton, Thomas, 205. "Chinese Letters," 90, 93. Christian Magazine, The, 91. Churchill, Charles, 109, 116. "Citizen of the World, The," 42, 71, 90, 93; preface quoted, 93-84; characteris- tics of, 95-96; the "Man in Black" and "Beau Tibbs," 97-98.
"City Night Piece, A," 79, 95.
"Clandestine Marriage, The,"
Clare, Lord, see "Nugent, Robert."
"Clown's Reply, The," 28. "Club, The," 110, 111, 158. Cock Lane Ghost, Pamphlet
Collins, Benjamin, printer, of Salisbury, 103, 132, 139, 141, 145. Colman, George, Manager of Covent Garden Theatre,
160, 162, 163, 196, 211, 212, 214, 217; Comedy,Genteel," or "Sen- timental," 159. "Compendium of Biography,"
Jane, afterwards Mrs., Lawder, 22, 23, 57; letter to, 59-62. Contarine, Rev. Mr., 12, 17, 21, 23, 26, 30, 34, 62; letters to, 30-34 Cook, William (European Magazine), 118, 140, 169, 175, 176, 177, 185, 239; quoted, 35, 61, 107, 137, 172, 173, 186, 214. Cradock, Joseph, 130, 144, 209, 218, 223; quoted, 239. Critical Review, The, 65. Croker, John Wilson, quoted, 245. Crown Tavern at Islington, 154, 157. Cumberland, Richard, 136, 226, 227; quoted, 136.
DAVIES, Thomas, the book- seller, 157, 198, 199, 223, 227, 243, 244; quoted, 237. Delap, Elizabeth, 5. "Deserted Village, The," 71, 79, 172; published, 185; dedicated to Reynolds, 185; depopulation theory, 185; identity of Auburn and Lis- soy, 186-187; qualities of the poem, 188; farewell to poetry, 188, 189; sum paid to author, 189. "Description of an Author's Bedchamber," 69, 70.
Dictionary of Arts and Sciences," 223, 224. "Distresses of a Common Soldier," 95, 125.
"Distresses of the Poor," 82. Dodsley, the bookseller, 136. "Double Transformation,
The," 126. Dyer, Samuel, 111.
"EDWIN and Angelina" (The Hermit), 129, 130, 131, 141, 142, 150, 151-152. "Elegy on a Mad Dog," 141. Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize," 45, 82, 83.
Ellis, Dr., Goldsmith's fellow student at Leyden, 34. "English Grammar," 151. "Enquiry into Polite Learning in Europe," 42, 57, 59, 73-78, 82, 109, 116. "Essays, by Mr. Goldsmith," 98, 124; preface and con- tents, 124-125; European Magazine, The, 35, 66.
"FALSE Delicacy," Kelly's, 163.
Fielding, Henry, 80. Filby, William, Goldsmith's Tailor, 182, 183 n., 240; quoted, 241. Fleming, Mrs., of Islington, 105, 106, 109, 140; her ac- counts, 105-106, 110, 113. Foley, Statue of Goldsmith by, 233.
Ford, Mr. Edward, 144. Forster, Mr. John, 157, 204 n.,
219, 235, 240; his "Life of Goldsmith" quoted, 51, 107, 109, 111, 162, 201. "Friar of Orders Gray," 152, 153.
"GAME of Chess," Goldsmith's translation of Vida's, 204 n. Garden Court, Temple, Gold- smith in, 154.
Garrick, David, 160, 161, 162, 164, 181, 182, 223, 224, 225, 229; epitaph on, 226. Gaubius, Professor of Chem- istry at Leyden, 33. Gibbon, Edward, 224. Gibbs, Mr. J. W. M., 39, 54 n. Glover, William, 158, 176; quoted, 40, 176. Goethe, quoted, 146-147. Golden, Peggy, 7, 171. Goldsmith, Ann (Goldsmith's mother), 3, 21, 24, 198. Goldsmith, Catherine (after- wards Mrs. Hodson), 11, 20, 24.
Goldsmith, Rev. Charles (Gold- smith's father), 3, 4, 12, 17,
Goldsmith, Charles (Gold-
smith's brother), 54: Goldsmith, Dean, of Cloyne, 27. Goldsmith, Rev. Henry (Gold- smith's eldest brother), 4, 8, 11, 17, 20, 26, 115, 172, 185; letter to, 19, 64-65, 68-71. Goldsmith, John, of Bally- oughter (Goldsmith's uncle), 8.
Goldsmith, Oliver, his family, 1;
father, 3; birth, 4; removal to Lissoy, 4; first teachers, Elizabeth Delap and Thomas Byrne, 5-6; has the small-pox, 7; anecdotes of childhood, 7-8; at school at Elphin and Athlone, 8-9; at Edgeworths- town,9; adventures at Ardagh, 10, 11; marriage of sister Catherine, II; sizar at Trin- ity College, Dublin, 13; his tutor, Theaker Wilder, 13; involved in a college riot, 15, 16; gets a small exhibition, 16; runs away and returns, 16, 17; writes songs for bal-
lad singers, 17; anecdote of his benevolence, 18; takes B. A. degree, 18; relics of college life, 18; rejected for holy orders, 23; tutor to Mr. Flinn, 23; sets out for Amer- ica and returns, 24-25; letter to his mother, 25-26; starts (fruitlessly) to study law, 26; goes to Edinburgh to study medicine, 27; admitted a medical student, 27; visits the Highlands, 30; starts for Paris, 30; adventures by the way, 30-32; leaves Leyden, 34; travels on the Continent, 34-40; lands at Dover, 40; first struggles on reaching England, 43-44; physician in Bankside, 44-45; proof reader to Richardson, 46; his tragedy, 47; projects for the East, 47; at Peckam Academy, 48-51; bound to Griffiths, the bookseller, 51; "Memoirs of a Protestant," 55-56; goes back to Peckham, 56; obtains and loses appoint- ment in East Indies, 62; fails at Surgeons' Hall as a hospi- tal mate, 63; No. 12, Green Arbour Court, Old Bailey, 66; difficulties with Griffiths, 67, 68; visit from Percy, 71, 72; "Present State of Polite Learning," 73-78; writes for The Busy Body and The Lady's Magazine, 77; The Bee, 77-83; visited by New- bery and Smollett, 86; con- tributions to The British Magazine 86, 87; "History of Miss Stanton," 87, 88; contributions to The Public Ledger, 89; edits The Lady's Magazine, 90; moves into
No. 6, Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, 91; visited there by Johnson, 91; Me- moirs of Voltaire," 92; "His- tory of Mecklenburgh," 92; "Mystery Revealed,' "Citizen of the World,' 93-99; "Compendium of Biography," 100; "Life of Nash," 101; sale of third share of "Vicar of Wakefield," 101, 102; removes to Mrs. Fleming's at Islington, 103- 104: Mrs. Fleming's ac- counts, 105, 106; hack-work for Newbery, 106, 107; "Let- ters of a Nobleman," 107; Hogarth at Islington, 109- 110; The Club" formed, 110, 111; working on "The Traveller," 113; publication of that poem, 115; described, 115-123; "Essays, by Mr. Goldsmith," 124-125; friend- ship with Nugent (Lord Clare), 127; visits North- umberland House, 127-128; "Edwin and Angelina," 129; resumes medical practice, 131, 132; "Vicar of Wakefield," 132; story of sale, 133-141; date of production, 141; char- acteristics, 142-144; theories of Mr. Ford, 144; bibliogra- phy, &c., 144-147; Formey's "History of Philosophy," &c., translated, 150; "Poems for Young Ladies," 150; "English Grammar," 151; "Beauties of English Poesy," 151; letter to St. James's Chronicle, 151; at Canonbury House, 153; at the Temple, 154; visited by Parson Scott, "Roman 155; History," 157; the "Wednesday Club,"
158; "Good Natur'd Man " produced, 163; its story, 159-167; at 2, Brick Court, Middle Temple, 169; relaxa- tions and festivities, 169–171; death of Henry Goldsmith, 171; begins "The Deserted Village," 172; "Shoemaker's holidays" and "Shoemaker's Paradise," 173-174; Mr. Edmund Bott, 178-179; old compilations and new, 179, 180; epilogue to Mrs. Len- ox's "Sister," 180; a dinner at Boswell's, 181-183; ap- pointed Professor of History to the Royal Academy, 184; letter to Maurice Goldsmith, 184; portrait painted by Reynolds, 184; "The De-- serted Village," 185-190; the Horneck family, 191-192; "Life of Parnell," 193; visits Paris, 193-197;“ Abridgment of Roman History,' "198; "Life of Bolingbroke," 199; Lord Clare and "The Haunch of Venison," 200-204; at the Royal Academy dinner, 204; at Edgeware, 206-207; "His- tory of England," 207; pro- logue to Cradock's "Zo- beide," 209; "Threnodia Augustalis," 209; letter to Mrs. Bunbury, 209-211; "She Stoops to Conquer" produced, 213; its story, 211- 216; libelled by The London Packet, 217-220; dining at Oglethorpe's, 221; at Paoli's, 221; "The Grumbler," 222; "Grecian History," 223; "Dictionary of Arts and Sciences,' 223; "Retalia- tion," 225-228; illness, 229- death and burial, 231,
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