Breakneck Steps, 60, 64
Brick Court, Middle Temple (No.
2), 137, 165, 183

British Magazine, The, 43, 76,
77, 78

Brooke's "System of Natural
History," Preface to, 90-1
Bryanton, Robert, of Ballymulvey,
23, 27, 53, 54, 62; letters to,
32-3, 54-5

Bunbury, Henry William, the
Caricaturist, 155, 186

Bunbury, Mrs., see "Horneck,
Catherine"

Burke, Edmund, 93, 132, 157, 179,

181, 183, 194, 195
Busy Body, The, 69, 72
Byrne, Thomas, 14, 36, 151

C.

Campbell, Mr., 17

Canonbury House, 89, 126
"Captivity, Oratorio of the," 185 n.
Chamier, Mr., 93

Chatterton, Thomas, 164

"Chinese Letters," 78, 80
Christian Magazine, The, 79
Churchill, Charles, 92, 97
"Citizen of the World, The," 43,
64, 78, 80; preface quoted,
80-1; characteristics of, 82-3;
the "Man in Black" and "Beau
Tibbs," 83-4

"City Night Piece, A," 70, 82
"Clandestine Marriage, The,"
131

Clare, Lord, see "Nugent, Ro-
bert "

"Clown's Reply, The," 32
"Club, The," 93-4, 129

Cock Lane Ghost, Pamphlet on,
80

Collins, Benjamin, printer, of

Salisbury, 87, 88, 110, 115, 117,

120, 122

Colman, George, Manager of
Covent Garden Theatre, 131,
132, 133, 157, 169, 171, 173
Comedy, "Genteel," or "Senti-
mental," 130

"Compendium of Biography,"
85-6

Contarine, Jane, afterwards Mrs.
Lawder, 27, 28, 53; letter to,
55-7

Contarine, Rev. Mr., 19, 23, 26,
28, 31, 33, 36, 58; letters to,
33-6
Cooke, William (European Maga-

zine), 98, 115, 137, 142, 143,
144, 149, 190; quoted, 37, 49,
91, 113, 140, 141, 150, 171
Cradock, Joseph, 108, 118, 167,
174, 177; quoted, 190
Critical Review, The, 60

Croker, John Wilson, quoted,
194-5

Crown Tavern at Islington, 126,
128
Cumberland, Richard, 112, 179,
181; quoted, 112

D.

Davies, Thomas, the bookseller,
128, 159, 160, 177, 180, 193;
quoted, 188

Delap, Elizabeth, 14
"Deserted Village, The," 64, 70,
140; published, 149; dedicated
to Reynolds, 149; depopulation
theory, 150; identity of Auburn
and Lissoy, 150-1; qualities of
the poem, 151-2; farewell to
poetry, 152-3; sum paid to
author, 153

"Description of an Author's Bed-
chamber," 63

"Dictionary of Arts and Sciences,"
177, 178

"Distresses of the Poor," 77, 82
Dodsley, the bookseller, 112
"Double Transformation, The,"

105

Dyer, Samuel, 93

E.

"Edwin and Angelina" (The
Hermit), 108, 109, 117, 123,
124-5

Elegy on a Mad Dog," 117
"Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize,"
44-5, 73

Ellis, Dr., Goldsmith's fellow
student at Leyden, 36
"English Grammar," 124
"Enquiry into Polite Learning in

60

F.

"False Delicacy," Kelly's, 133
Fielding, Henry, 70, 71
Filby, William, Goldsmith's Tailor,
147, 148 n., 190; quoted, 191
Fleming, Mrs., of Islington, 89,
90, 92, 115, 116; her accounts,
89-90, 93, 95

Foley, Statue of Goldsmith by,
185

Ford, Mr. Edward, 119

Forster, Mr. John, 129, 163 n., 174,

186, 190; his "Life of Gold-
smith" quoted, 49, 91, 92, 94,
132, 161

"Friar of Orders Gray," 124, 125

G.

"Game of Chess," Goldsmith's
translation of Vida's, 163 n.
Garden Court, Temple, Goldsmith
in, 126

Garrick, David, 131, 132, 133, 147,
178, 179, 182; epitaph on, 180
Gaubius, Professor of Chemistry
at Leyden, 36
Gibbon, Edward, 178
Gibbs, Mr. J. W. M., 40, 52 n.
Glover, William, 129, 142; quoted,
41, 143

Goethe, quoted, 120-1
Golden, Peggy, 15, 139

mother), 12, 26, 29, 158
Goldsmith, Catherine (afterwards
Mrs. Hodson), 19, 26, 30
Goldsmith, Rev. Charles (Gold-
smith's father), 12, 13, 19, 23,
26

Goldsmith, Charles (Goldsmith's
▾ brother), 52

Goldsmith, Dean, of Cloyne, 31
Goldsmith, Rev. Henry (Gold-
smith's eldest brother), 13, 16,
19, 23, 26, 30, 96, 139, 140, 149;
letter to, 24, 59-60, 62-64
Goldsmith, John, of Ballyoughter
(Goldsmith's uncle), 16
Goldsmith, Oliver, his family, II;
father, 12; birth, 13; removal
to Lissoy, 13; first teachers,
Elizabeth Delap and Thomas
Byrne, 14-15; has the small-
pox, 15; anecdotes of childhood,
15-6; at school at Elphin and
Athlone, 16-7; at Edgeworths-
town, 17; adventures at Ardagh,
17-8; marriage of sister Cathe-
rine, 19; sizar at Trinity
College, Dublin, 20; his tutor,
Theaker Wilder, 20; involved
in a college riot, 21-2; gets a
small exhibition, 22; runs away
and returns, 22-3; writes songs
for ballad singers, 23; anec-
dote of his benevolence, 23-4;
takes B.A. degree, 24; relics of
college life, 24; rejected for
holy orders, 28; tutor to Mr.
Flinn, 28; sets out for America
and returns, 28-9; letter to his
mother, 29-30; starts (fruit-

lessly) to study law, 30; goes to
Edinburgh to study medicine,
31; admitted a medical student,
31; visits the Highlands, 33;
starts for Paris, 33; adventures
by the way, 33-5; leaves Ley-
den, 37; travels on the Conti-
nent, 37-41; lands at Dover,
41; first struggles on reaching
England, 43-4; physician in
Bankside, 44-5; proof reader
to Richardson, 46; his tragedy,
46; projects for the East, 46-7;
at Peckham Academy, 47-9 ;
bound to Griffiths, the book-
seller, 49; "Memoirs of a Pro-
testant," 52-3; goes back to
Peckham, 53; obtains and loses
appointment in East Indies, 58;
fails at Surgeons' Hall as a
hospital mate, 58; No. 12,
Green Arbour Court, Old
Bailey, 60; difficulties with
Griffiths, 61-2; visit from Percy,
64-5; "Present State of Polite
Learning," 65-9; writes for
The Busy Body and The Lady's
Magazine, 69; The Bee, 69-73;
visited by Newbery and Smol-
lett, 75; contributions to The
British Magazine, 76–7; "His-
tory of Miss Stanton," 76-7;
contributions to The Public
Ledger, 78; edits The Lady's
Magazine, 78; moves into No.
6, Wine Office Court, Fleet
Street, 79; visited there by
Johnson, 79; "Memoirs of
Voltaire," 80; "History of
Mecklenburgh," 80; "Mystery

Revealed," 80; "Citizen of
the World," 80-4; "Compen-
dium of Biography," 85; "Life
of Nash," 86; sale of third share
of " Vicar of Wakefield," 86-7;
removes to Mrs. Fleming's at
Islington, 87-9; Mrs. Fleming's
accounts, 89-90; hack-work for
Newbery, 90-1; "Letters of a
Nobleman," 91; Hogarth at
Islington, 92-3; "The Club"
formed, 93-4; working on "The
Traveller," 95; publication of
that poem, 97; described, 97-
103; Essays, by Mr. Gold-
smith," 104-5; friendship with
Nugent (Lord Clare), 106;
visits Northumberland House,
106-7; "Edwin and Angelina,"
108; resumes medical practice,
109-10; "Vicar of Wakefield,"
IIO; story of sale, 110-16;
date of production, 116; cha-
racteristics, 117-8; theories of
Mr. Ford, 119; bibliography,
&c., 119-21; Formey's "His-
tory of Philosophy," &c., trans-
lated, 123; "Poems for Young
Ladies," 123; "English Gram-
mar," 124; "Beauties of Eng-
lish Poesy," 124; letter to St.
James's Chronicle, 125; at
Canonbury House, 126; at
the Temple, 126; visited by
Parson Scott, 127; "Roman
History," 128; the "Wednes-
day Club," 129; "Good Natur'd
Man" produced, 133; its story,
130-6; at 2, Brick Court, Middle
Temple, 137; relaxations and

festivities, 138 9; death of
Henry Goldsmith, 139; begins
"The Deserted Village," 140;
"Shoemaker's holidays" and
"Shoemaker's Paradise," 141-5;
Mr. Edmund Bott, 144-5; old
compilations and new, 145;
epilogue to Mrs. Lennox's
"Sister," 146; a dinner at Bos-
well's, 146-8; appointed Pro-
fessor of History to the Royal
Academy, 148'; letter to Maurice
Goldsmith, 148-9; portrait
painted by Reynolds, 149;

The Deserted Village," 149-
153; the Horneck family, 154-5;
"Life of Parnell," 155; visits
Paris, 155-8; "Abridgment of
Roman History," 159; "Life
of Bolingbroke," 159; Lord
Clare and The Haunch of
Venison," 160-3; at the Royal
Academy dinner, 164; at Edge-
ware, 165-6; "History of
England," 166; prologue to
Cradock's Zobeide," 167;
"Threnodia Augustalis," 167;
letter to Mrs. Bunbury, 167-8;
"She Stoops to Conquer" pro-
duced, 170; its story, 169-172;
libelled by The London Packet,
173-5; dining at Oglethorpe's,
176; at Paoli's, 176; "The
Grumbler," 177; "Grecian
History," 177; "Dictionary of
Arts and Sciences," 177;
"Re-
taliation," 179-181; illness,
182-3; death and burial, 183;
Johnson's epitaph, 184; other
memorials, 185; portraits, 186-7;

testimonials as to character
187-8; money difficulties, 188-
90; love of play, 190; of fine
clothes, 190-2; generosity and
benevolence, 192-3; alleged
envy and malice, 193-4; simpli-
city, 194-5; position in society,
195-6; conversation, 197-8 ;
relations with Johnson, 199-
201; conclusion, 201-2; letters
to Daniel Hodson and Thomas
Bond, 203-6

Goldsmith's hostess, 92
Goldsmyth, John, 11
"Good Natur'd Man, The," 133;
produced, 133; Goldsmith on
the first night, 134; his gains,
135; Davies on the play, 135;
137, 148 n., 170, 178
Gordon, Mr., 129
Gray's "Odes," 50, 51
Grecian History, 165, 177
Green Arbour Court, Old Bailey,
60, 64

Green, Rev. Mr., of Kilkenny

West, 13

Griffiths, the bookseller, 49, 50, 51,
61, 62

"Grumbler, The," 177

Gunning, Elizabeth, Duchess of
Hamilton, 32

Gunns, Miss, the two, 191
Gwyn, Mrs., see "Horneck,
Mary"

H.

"Haunch of Venison, The," 129n.,
149, 161; quoted 162–3 ; 185 n.,
186
Hawes, William, 182; his "Ac-