Amenities of authorship: Newbery tad an diett,

The British Magazine "Hin04) of Mic

other contributions; !

letters begun, January 4, 1700

די

arrives at Leyden; life there; leaves Leyden, February,

1755; travels on foot through Flanders and France;

travelling tutor (?); anecdote of Voltaire; further travels;

arrives in England, February 1, 1756

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CHAPTER III.

Prospect and retrospect; first struggles on reaching England;

comedian, apothecary's journeyman, poor physician, press-

corrector to Richardson; writes a tragedy; projects of

Eastern exploration assistant at Peckham Academy;

miseries of an usher; Peckham memories; bound to

Griffiths the bookseller, April, 1757; literature of all

work; criticism of Gray; quarrels with Griffiths;

"Memoirs of a Protestant " published, February, 1758;

returns to Peckham; new hopes; meditating "Enquiry

into Polite Learning; " letters to Mills, Bryanton, Mrs.

Lawder (Jane Contarine); obtains and loses appointment

as medical officer at Coromandel; rejected at Surgeons'

Hall as a hospital mate, December 21, 1758

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CHAPTER IV.

Pen-portrait of Goldsmith in 1759; No. 12, Green Arbour

Court, Old Bailey; difficulties with Griffiths; writing

"Memoirs of Voltaire; " letter to Henry Goldsmith,

February, 1759; visit from Dr. Percy, March; "Enquiry

into Polite Learning " published, April 2; account of that

book; its reception; contributions to The Busy Body,

and The Lady's Magazine; The Bee, October to

November; its reference to Johnson; minor verse

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CHAPTER V.

Amenities of authorship; Newbery and Smollett; work for

The British Magazine; History of Miss Stanton;

other contributions; The Public Ledger; Chinese

letters begun, January 24, 1760; The Lady's Magazine ;

moves into 6, Wine Office Court, Fleet Street; entertains
Johnson there May 31, 1761;"Memoirs of Voltaire"
published; "History of Mecklenburgh" published,
February 26, 1762; Cock Lane Ghost pamphlet; "Citizen
of the World" published, May I ; account of that book;
"The Man in Black" and "Beau Tibbs; " anecdotes;
Plutarch's lives begun, May 1; out of town; "Life of
Nash"
published, October 14; sale of third share in

"Vicar of Wakefield to Benjamin Collins, printer, of

Salisbury, October 28

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CHAPTER VI.

Goldsmith at Salisbury (?); removes to Mrs. Fleming's at

Islington; Mrs. Fleming's bills; hack-work for Newbery;

"History of England in a Series of Letters from a Noble-

man to his Son" published, June 26, 1764; Hogarth at

Islington; his portraits of Mrs. Fleming (?) and Goldsmith;

"The Club," 1764; its origin and first members; Gold-

smith "

as he struck his contemporaries"; writing

"The

Traveller" at Islington; publication of that poem,

December 19; its dedication to his brother Henry;

Johnson's influence and opinion; characteristics and

bibliography; sum paid to author

.

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CHAPTER VII.

"Essays: by Mr. Goldsmith " published, June 4, 1765; the

poetical essays; makes acquaintance with Nugent; visits

Northumberland House; "Edwin and Angelina

privately printed; resumes practice as a physician; episode

of Mrs. Sidebotham; "The Vicar of Wakefield"

published, March 27, 1766; Boswell's "authentic" account

of the sale of the manuscript; variants of Mrs. Piozzi,

Hawkins, Cumberland, and Cooke; attempt to harmonize

the Johnson story and the Collins purchase; date of com-

position of book; its characteristics; theories of Mr.

Ford; bibliography and sale.

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CHAPTER VIII.

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"The Vicar" and "The Traveller " as investments; trans-
lation of Formey's "History of Philosophy and Philoso-

phers" published, June, 1766; " Poems for Young Ladies

published, December 15; English Grammar written;

"Beauties of English Poesy" published, April, 1767;~

letter to the St. James's Chronicle, July; living at Canon-

bury House; at the Temple; visited by Parson Scott;

"Roman History"; the Wednesday Club; popularity of

genteel comedy; plans a play; story of "The Good Natur'd

Man; " its production at Covent Garden, January 29, 1768;

its reception; Goldsmith on the first night; his gains;

Davies on the dramatis personæ; Johnson on Goldsmith

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CHAPTER IX.

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Moves to 2, Brick Court, Middle Temple; relaxations and

festivities; the Seguin recollections; death of Henry

Goldsmith; begins "The Deserted Village ; methods of

poetical composition; "Shoemaker's Holidays; " Gold-.

smith's companions; "The Shoemaker's Paradise" at

Edgeware; Mr. Bott, the barrister; old compilations and

new; prologue to Mrs. Lennox's "Sister"; a dinner at

Boswell's; appointed Professor of History to the Royal

Academy, December; letter to Maurice Goldsmith,

January; portrait painted by Reynolds; "The Deserted

Village" published, May 26, 1770; depopulation theory;

identity of Auburn and Lissoy; enduring qualities of the

poem; farewell to poetry; amount received by author

CHAPTER X.

The Horneck family; "Life of Thomas Parnell" published,
July 13, 1770; visit to Paris, and letters to Reynolds;
Abridgment of Roman History," September;

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"Life

of Bolingbroke" published, December; Lord Clare
and "The Haunch of Venison"; at the Royal
Academy dinner; at Edgeware; "History of England"

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