discussions with Burke, ib; dispute with
Johnson on the merits of Venice Preserved,
ib; deficient in high criticism, 352; his
desire to play Scrub, 353; his brogue an
objection, 354; his "little Cornelys,";
355; tête-à-tête suppers with Johnson,
357; mortifications from Colman, and
sad self-misgivings, 358; Colman's ob-
jections and delays, 365; sends the MS.
of She Stoops to Conquer to Garrick, 366;
annoyances with the actors, 370; celebri-
ties attending his rehearsals, 371; diffi-
culties as to an epilogue, 372; letter to
Cradock on his perplexities, ib; the play
not yet named, 373; Reynolds's sugges-
tion, 374; name decided on at last, ib;
the comedy's success, 377; state of his
feelings the night of performance, 379;
enters the stage door at the fifth act, ib;
gratitude to Quick and Lewes for their ex-
exertions, 380; test of a comedy, 382;
enjoyed two royal commands, 382, 383;
dedicated to Johnson, 383; attacked by
Kenrick, 384; scuffle with Evans, pub-
lisher of the London Packet, 387; de-
fence of himself in the Daily Advertiser,
389; dinner at Oglethorpe's, 391; favours
the company with a song, 392; dinner
at Paoli's, ib; conversations and discus-
sions, 393-398; character of his argu-
ments and remarks, 395; spirited op-
position to the Court party on the
Royal Marriage Act, 397; dinner at
Thrale's in the brew-house, 398; argu-
ment with Johnson, ib; dinner at
Oglethorpe's, 399; arguments between
Boswell and Johnson, 400; discussion at
Thrale's on natural history, 402; his
repetition of traveller's stories, 402,
403; advocacy of abstinence, 404; dis-
tresses and disputes, 405; engaged upon
his Grecian History, ib; goes more to
the club, 406; charming passages from
the Animated Nature, 414-416; argu-
ment with Johnson on toleration, 416;
quarrel with Johnson at Dilly's, 418;
Johnson's apology, 419; opinion of John-
son's visit to the Hebrides, 421; enthusi-
astic eulogy of Burke, ib; speculation to
obtain the literary assistance of his friends,
424; projects a Popular Dictionary_of
Arts, 425; promised the assistance of Dr.
Burney, ib; altered condition of his
Temple-chambers, 426; negligence of
books and money, ib; requests Percy to
be his biographer, 427; depression of
spirits and bursts of passion, ib; whist
parties at Sir William Chambers's, 428;
the unfortunate ballad-singer, ib; a

pension in agitation for him, ib; ap-
plication neglected by the ministry, 429;
reasons assignable for their neglect, 430;
resentment against Reynolds, for his pa-
tronage of Beattie, 431; judgment upon
the ill-advised allegoric picture, 432;
disappointed hopes from Lord Shelburne,
433; puff for Lord Mayor Townshend,
434; mal-a-propos remark to Lord Shel-
burne, ib; breach with Colman, 435;
wishes to withdraw his comedies from
Covent-garden, ib; project of Popular
Dictionary declined by the trade, 436;
reasons for abandoning the speculation,
437; writes letter to Garrick, 438; offers
to alter the character of Lofty for Garrick,
439; letter of thanks for money lent, 440;
intended visit to Barton, ib; Goldsmith
and Sir Joshua at Vauxhall, 441; dinner
at Beauclerc's, 442; Goldsmith and
Garrick's travestie of Addison's Cato, ib;
game of mufti, 443; visit from Cradock in
the Temple, 444; what was really killing
him, b; last dinner with his friend
Cradock, 445; increase in the abrupt-
ness of his manners, 446; origin of
Retaliation, 446; Garrick's epitaph on
him, 447; flutters the epitaph writers,
447, 448, 452; returns to the Edgeware-
lodging, 456; letter to Mr. Nourse, pub-
lisher, 457; last literary engagements,
ib; purposes selling his Temple-cham-
bers, 459; good resolutions suddenly ar-
rested, ib; his last illness, 460; his
perverse treatment of his malady, 461,
462, 464; his last words, 465.
Goldsmith, Anne, mother of Oliver, i. 8;
her distress after her husband's death,
37; sends Noll on village errands, 38;
what he did in a window of her lodgings,
39; her cool reception of him after the
Fiddleback adventures, 44; her vexa-
tion, 45; Oliver writes to her, 46;
objection to receive him, 47; letter to
her, 443; allusions to her in letters to
his friends, 448; ii. 198; her death,
251; silly story by Miss Reynolds refuted,
252.

Goldsmith family, births and history, i. 9;

family bible, 8, 9; their opinion of

themselves, 17.

Goldsmith, Dean of Cloyne, visit to Mr.

Contarine, i. 48; his opinion on young
Oliver, b; recommends his studying
the medical profession, ib; the hint his
only contribution, ib.
Goldsmith, Rev. Charles, descent, i. 8;
marriage, ib; succeeds to the rectory of
Kilkenny West, ib; removes to Lissoy,

ib; a prominent character in his son's
works, ib; indignation at his daughter
Catherine's marriage, 23; reproaches
of her father-in-law, ib; encumbers his
property for a marriage portion, ib;
evidence of false pride of the family, ib;
partly sketched in the Deserted Village,
ii. 136; what his parsonage came to,
237.

Goldsmith, Charles, i. 9; visit to his brother
in the garret near Salisbury-square, 129;
object of his journey from Ballymahon,
ib; wins the secret of the garret from the
Temple Exchange waiter, ib; reception
by his brother, 130; quits London in a
few days, ib; sails for Jamaica, ib; re-
turn after thirty-four years absence,
ib; success in the West Indies, ib; his
family, ib; likeness to his brother, ib;
purchases houses in Somerstown, ib;
removes to France, ib; eludes Bonaparte's
decree for detaining British subjects, ib;
returns to England, ib; dies in reduced
circumstances, ib; his share in the
"trade's" munificence to Goldsmith's re-
latives, ii. 492.

Goldsmith, Rev. Henry, birth, i. 9; goes
pensioner to Dublin University, 19;
obtains a scholarship, 23; becomes
private tutor, ib; receives Goldsmith
into his house, 47; quarrels with his
brother, ib; Goldsmith's departure
and alleged cessation of intercourse, ib;
receives first sketch of the Traveller
from Switzerland, 71; writes to his
brother as to Essay on Polite Learning,
173; Goldsmith's letters to him, 174;
dedication to him of the Traveller, 388;
intercedes for him with Lord Northum-
berland, 406, 407; his death, ii. 136;
his widow, matron to an infirmary, 493;
his daughter dies in distress, ib.
Goldsmith, John, of Ballyoughter, i. 12;
Goldsmith boards with him while at
school at Elphin, ib; his opinion of his
nephew, ib.

Goldsmith, Maurice, writes about an un-
appropriated legacy of uncle Contarine's,
ii. 196; requests it as an outfit, and
asks for an appointment, ib; binds him-
self to a cabinet-maker, 199; keeps a
shop in Dublin, ib; comes to London on
his brother's death, and gets nothing,
468; his subsequent destitution, 486;
made a mace-bearer, ib; dies in want,
488.

Goldsmith, Esther, wishes to be made
housekeeper to Irish Academy, 485;
fails, ib.

Good Natured Man, first placed in Gar-
rick's hands, ii. 52; difficulties as to its
representation, 53; analysis of the cha-
racters, 56; Garrick's objections to the
character of Lofty, 59; submitted to
the arbitration of Whitehead, the laureat,
60; withdrawn from Garrick, and given
to Colman, 65; read by Burke, 114;
Colman's ill opinion of it, 115; squabbles
of actors respecting parts, 119; Shuter's
exertions in the part of Croaker, ib;
cast of the characters, 121; ill-reception
of the bailiffs, ib; adverse chances of suc-
cess, 122; decided by the inimitable
humour of Shuter in scene of "incendiary
letter," ib; opinions of Gibbon's friend,
Deyverdun, 124; increased success on
removal of the bailiff-scene, 125; pub-
lished by Griffin, ib; arrives immediately
at a second edition, ib; the bailiff-scene
eventually restored, 126; played fifth
night by command of their Majesties,
127; selected by Shuter for his benefit, ib.
Gouget, President, Origin of Laws, Arts
and Sciences, i. 186; reviewed by Gold-
smith, ib.

Grafton Ministry, the, ii. 88; a triumph
of royalty, ib; its character and con-
stitution, ib; reels under Wilkes, 156;
deserted by the Chatham party, ib; as-
sailed by Burke, 224; by Junius, ib;
by Chatham, 225; falls, ib.
Graham, Rev. Mr, story of the incident
in She Stoops to Conquer, vouched to him
by Jack Fitzsimmons, i. 21; by Sir
Thomas Featherston, 22, ; speech at
public meeting in Ballymahon, ib.
Graham, George, one of the masters of
Eton, ii. 101; author of the masque of
Telemachus, 102; his insolence to Gold-
smith, ib.

Grainger (Dr. James), contributor to the
Monthly Review, i. 97; author of the
Sugar Cane, 128; meets Goldsmith at
Temple Exchange coffee-house, ib; cha-
racter of him by Goldsmith, Johnson, and
Percy, ib; connection with the Grand
Magazine, 141; his ballad of Bryan and
Pereene first appears there, ib; Bishop
Percy's affection for him, ib; his re-
turn from the West Indies, 379;
brings out his poem of the Sugar Cane,
ib; complains of Goldsmith's non-cor-
respondence, ib; robbed near London, 379.
Grand Magazine of Universal Intelligence,
established, i. 141; supported by Grain-
ger, Percy, &c., ib; doubts as to Gold-
smith's contribution, ib; Bryan and
Pereene first published there, ib.

Granger, Rev. James, author of the
Biographical History, i. 395; puzzled
by a line in the Traveller, ib; his corres-
pondence with Davies, ii. 255; his
character, 312; odd mention of Goldsmith
in his book, ib.

Grattan, Henry, introduction to Goldsmith,
ii. 281; Goldsmith's attachment to him,
ib.
Gray, the poet, his war against mathe-
matics, i. 32; his Master Tommy Lu-
cretius, 118; his liking and disliking
for Voltaire, 119; his Odes printed
by Walpole at Strawberry-hill, 120;
reasons of Walpole's attachment to him,
ib; his character, ib; indifference to
popular influences, ib; light in which
he regarded the genius of others, 121;
learned idleness, ib; reviewed and
praised by Goldsmith, 122, 123; in-
fluence of Spenser on his poetry, 183:
his opinion of Sterne's Tristram Shandy,
and Sermons, 282; praises Green's
Spleen, 316, 317; and Johnson's London,
account of Kit Smart when fellow of
Pembroke College, 367; delight in
the musical glasses, ii. 11; opinion of
Pitt's accepting a peerage, 35; the
charm of his letters, 109; Mitford and
Mason, 110; lines on the red breast and
woodlark, 148; his treatment by Lord
Bute, 150; obtains the professorship of
modern history, ib; opinion of Boswell's
book about Corsica, 151; calls Johnson
Ursa major, 166; his remark on Gar-
rick's jubilee, 186; pleasant anecdote
of him, ib; his dulness in conversa-
tion, 218; dines at Walpole's with
Hogarth, 219; his last summer, 226;
last letter to Walpole, 227; his delicate
criticism, ib; criticism on the Deserted
Village, ib; affecting remark
on his
mother, 252; laughs at Walpole's
belief in Rowley's Poems, 279; depre-
ciation of Harris's Hermes, 395.
Grecian Coffee-house, favourite resort of
the Irish and Lancashire Templars, ii.
283.

Green, Rev. Mr, rector of Kilkenny West,

i. 8; uncle to Charles Goldsmith's wife,
ib.

Green, author of the Spleen, i. 316;
Gray's opinion of it, 317.

Green Arbour-court, place of Goldsmith's
residence, i. 162; described ib; visited
by Washington Irving, ib; described in
Tales of a Traveller, 163.
Greene, Rev. Mr, his assistance in the
early education of Goldsmith, i. 25.

Grenville, George, his ministry, i. 41;
connected with the Bedfords, and known
by the name of the Bloomsbury Gang,
ib; his impolitic conduct, 412; rouses
the America Colonies to insurrection, ib;
passes the Stamp Act, 413; first outbreak
of the king's malady, ib; the clash and
confusion of parties, b; reasons of the
king's dislike, ib; his downfall, 416;
uses of literature to him, ii. 41;
taunts Charles Townshend, 84; left in
the lurch, 87.

Griffin, Mr. Gerald, author of the tragedy
of Gisippus, i. 221; comes to London
without a friend and with one tragedy,
222,;
composes Gisippus on frag-
ments of paper in coffee-houses, ib;
writes rejected comedies and farces, ib;
want of common necessaries, ib; be-
comes booksellers' hack, ib; conscious-
ness of the vanity of literary pursuits,
ib; enters a convent in his 35th year,
ib; burns all his compositions but
Gisippus, ib; acted after his death, at
Drury Lane, by Mr. Macready, ib; a
scene, 452.

Griffin, Mr, publishes the comedy of the
Good Natured Man, ii. 125; engage-
ment with Goldsmith to write Natural
History, 177; publishes the Deserted
Village, ii. 226.

Griffiths, Ralph, bookseller, proprietor of
the Monthly Review, i. 90; meets Gold-
smith at Dr. Milner's table, ib; at-
tracted by his remarks, 91; engages him
as a reviewer, ib; feud between him
and Smollett, 104, 105; his abuse of
Smollett, A. N. xxix; he and his wife
tamper with Goldsmith's compositions,
104, 111, 125; quarrel with Goldsmith,
125; opinion of him, 127; contracts
for four articles for the Monthly Review,
165; becomes security to a tailor
for a suit of clothes, 169; demands
payment, ib; calls Goldsmith a sharper
and a villain, 170; obtains degree of
Doctor from an American university,
b; success in life, 171; publishes in-
famous books, A. N. XXX; contracts with
Goldsmith for Life of Voltaire, 173;
attacks Goldsmith's Enquiry, 196; apo-
logises, 275; attacks the Essays, 401;
attacks Goldsmith's Life of Bolingbroke,
ii. 255; attacks She Stoops to Con-
quer, 378.

Griffiths, Mrs, her character, i. 102;
tampers with Goldsmith's compositions,
104; letter to her, 157, 190.
Grub-street, Goldsmith enters, i. 96; what

Walpole and Hume thought of its quar-
rels, 198; great activity in, 213; its
leading ornaments, 214; Johnson there,
215; literature, its debasement of,
ii. 10.

Guicciardini's History of Italy, i. 186;
reviewed by Goldsmith, ib.

Guild of Literature and Art, its views and
objects, i. 201.

Gun, the Misses, milliners, their generous
feeling to wards Goldsmith, ii. 445.
Gwyn, Mrs (Jessamy Bride), ii. 173; meets
Hazlitt in Northcote's painting-room,
ib; character by Burke, ib; defence
of Goldsmith, 247; account of his visits
to Barton, 318, n. See HORNECK.

H.

HAMILTON, Duke of, Goldsmith's employ-
ment (?) in his family, i. 51; light in
which he was regarded, ib; rupture and
causes thereof, ib.

Hamilton, Archibald, bookseller, establishes
the Critical Review, i. 91; applied to by
Goldsmith after quitting Griffiths, 157;
engages him for the Critical Review, ib;
makes a fortune out of Smollett's His-
tory, 158; not very liberal in his pay-
ments, ib; conscious of Goldsmith's
value, ib.

Hamilton, Mr. Gerard, anecdote of John-

son's oratory, i. 311; his conduct to
Burke, 340.

Handsome Housemaid, the, Foote's attack

upon the sentimental school, ii. 368.
Hanway, Jonas, i. 115; Johnson's dictum
concerning him, ib; his character, ib;
originates the Marine and Magdalen
Societies, ib; introduces the umbrella,
116, A. N. Xxx; crusade against tea,
117; writes Journey from Portsmouth,
ib; reviewed by Johnson in Literary
Magazine, ib; by Goldsmith in Monthly
Review, ib.

Harding, the poet, his prosopopoeia of the
Deserted Village, ii. 238.
Hastings, Warren, impeachment of, 301;
active part taken by Burke in, ib; the
hostilities and scandals so provoked, ib.
Haunch of Venison, its origin, ii. 259;
written for the amusement of Lord
Clare, ib; variations in the editions,
260, 261, 262; criticisms and characters,
260, 261; pillories Parson Scott, 263.
Havard, Mr, author of Regulus, i. 108.
Hawes, Dr, attendant on Goldsmith in
his last illness, ii. 460; narrative of its

circumstances, 462; his tribute to Gold-
smith, ib; his last visit, 464; manages
the funeral, 468; kindness to Maurice,
ib.
Hawkesworth, Jack, the essayist, an imi-
tator of Johnson, i. 396.

Hawkins, Sir John, opinion on the foun-
dation of sizarships, i. 24; anecdote
of Goldsmith and Roubiliac, 289;
why he liked to tell it, ib; contra-
dicted, ib; his character, ib; mem-
ber of Ivy-lane and literary clubs, 333;
reasons of his objections to Goldsmith's
election, 336; a literary attorney, ib;
dabbles in music at the madrigal society,
ib; out of place in the literary club, ib;
borne with for the sake of Johnson's
old associations, ib; falls into a large
fortune, through his wife, 337; with-
draws from the law, ib; becomes a
Middlesex magistrate, ib; chairman of
sessions, ib; knighted, ib; writes a
history of music, ib; epitaph and epi-
gram on him, ib; pedantry of his
disposition, ib; denounces sentimental
writers, ib; particular antipathy to Gold-
smith, 338; declines to partake supper
on score of expense, ib; declared by
Johnson to be an "unclubbable" man,
ib; gross rudeness to Burke, 339;
causes his secession from the club, ib;
style of his language and conversa-
tion, ib; blunders as to Goldsmith's
arrest, 385; amazement at the Traveller,
933; praises the poem of Edwin and
Angelina, 402; meets Goldsmith at
levee of the Earl of Northumberland,
405; deems him an idiot for his inde-
pendence, 406; ignoble charge against
Burke, 414; intercedes for Garrick's
admission to the literary club, 420;
wonder at Mr. Burke's success, 437
accuses Goldsmith of envying Johnson,
ii. 102; unauthorised repetitions of ill-
natured sayings, ib; anecdotes of Gold-
smith's rudeness, 212.

Hawkins, Rev. Mr, Works, 187, reviewed
by Goldsmith, ib; Answer by Hawkins,
ib; re-reviewed, ib; professor of poe-
try at Oxford, ib; author of the
Thimble, the Siege of Aleppo, ib;
offers his tragedy to Garrick, ib; re-
fused by him, ib; professes to write in
imitation of Shakspeare, ib; corre-
spondence with Garrick, ib.
Hawkins, Lætitia Matilda (Memoir),
defence of her father, character of the
Burkes, i. 339, 342; sketch of Bennet
Langton, 348; recollections of Gold-

smith's kindness to children, ii. 71;
her scandalous anecdotes, 172, 180;
description of Walpole, 279.
Haydon, the painter, anecdotes of Mrs.
Gwatkin, Johnson, and Goldsmith, ii.
295, n.

Hazlitt, William, on Steele's pretensions as
a comic writer, ii. 116; interview with
the "Jessamy Bride' in Northcote's
painting room, 173; admiration of
Northcote's talk, 213.
Heber, Mr, his original copy of Edwin and
Angelina, i. 403; variations between it
and the copy in the novel, 404.
Henriade, Voltaire's, Goldsmith contracts
to write Life to be prefixed, i. 173.
Herder, Johann Gottfried, critic, ii. 16;
reads Vicar of Wakefield to Goethe, ib.
Hickey, Mr, a friend of Goldsmith's, ii.
250;
niched into Retaliation, ib;
raillery indulged at Goldsmith's expense,
251.

Hiffernan, Paul, a protégé of Goldsmith's,
ii. 158; his character and habits, 158,
159; his convivial qualities, 159; writes
theatrical critiques, ib; pensioned by
Garrick, ib.

Hill, Aaron, author of Merope, i. 108.
History of Italy, by Guicciardini, i. 186;
reviewed by Goldsmith, ib.
Hoadly, Dr, John, younger brother of the
author of the Suspicious Husband, ii.
125; his opinion of Goldsmith's "low"
humour, 125, 126; anecdote of Beckford,
215; his lost farce, ib; attack on
Goldsmith, 390.

Hodson, Daniel, Esq., of St. John's Ros-
common, father-in-law of Catherine
Goldsmith, i. 23; indignation at the
match, ib; reproaches Charles Gold-
smith, ib; obtains a legal engagement
for portion, ib; influence on Goldsmith's
prospects, 24.

Hodson, Mr, Daniel, of St. John's Ros-
common, i. 23; privately marries Cathe-
rine Goldsmith, ib; pupil of Henry, her
brother, ib; parental indignation at the
marriage, ib; letter to him, 131; en-
deavour to collect a subscription for
Goldsmith's travels abroad, ib.
Hodson, Oliver Goldsmith, son of Gold-
smith's brother-in-law, returns to London,
ii. 199; his occupation in the interval,
ib; lives as a pensioner on his uncle, ib;
curious adventure with a lottery ticket,
ib; practises occasionally as an apothe-
cary in Newman-street, ib; succeeds to his
patrimonial estate, ib.

Hodson, Mrs, Narrative contributed to

the Percy Memoir, i. 11; expressions
to Dr. Percy concerning her brother,
i. 13; anecdote to Reynolds of Gold-
smith's "most exquisite meal," 34.
Hogan, Mr, restoration of Lissoy, ii. 237:
gets up the allusions of the Deserted
Village for the pleasure of pilgrims, ib.
Hogarth, sketching Garrick, i. 318; en-
couraging a coward to fight, 327; visit to
Goldsmith at Islington, 328; Barry's first
interview with him, ib; causes of the
friendship between Goldsmith and Ho-
garth, ib; advice to Mrs. Thrale, b;
paints portrait of Goldsmith's landlady,
329; generous motives for doing so, ib;
difficulties of his temper, 331; opposition
between him and Reynolds, ib; the
school he studied from, 332; opinions on
art, 332; quarrel with Churchill, 389;
his plate suggests Clandestine Marriage,
ii. 25; at dinner with Walpole, 219.
Holberg, Baron de, his career, i. 59;
obscure origin, ib; arrives at distinc-
tion, ib; passion for travel and infor-
mation, 60; influence of his character
upon the fortunes of Goldsmith, 63.
Home, Rev. John, author of the tragedy of
Douglas, i. 106; refused at Drury-lane,
ib; endorsed by the Scottish capital,
107; pronounced to be superior to Shak-
speare, ib; David Hume's critical opinion,
108; acted at Covent Garden, ib; its
success, ib; jealousy of Garrick, ib;
its author ejected by the presbytery, ib;
reviewed by Goldsmith, 108, 109; his
Agis produced, 237; cried over by Gray,
ib; his pension, 305; his Fatal Discovery,
ii. 157; brought out by Garrick at Drury-
lane, ib; the author's name suppressed,
ib.

Hone, his Every-day Book, assertion that
Goldsmith wrote the Deserted Village
in the tower of Canonbury House, ii.
82.

Honner, Mr, fellow-student with Gold-
smith in Edinburgh, i. 53; introduces
him to his tailor, ib; name unknown,

54.

Horneck, Charles, his unfortunate mar-
riage, ii. 460.

Horneck, the Misses, their family and con-
nections, ii. 172; their intimacy with
Goldsmith, ib; the fascination exercised
over him by the "Jessamy Bride," b;
their visit with Goldsmith to France,
245; adventures at Lisle, 247; at Paris,
249; at Versailles, 251; "Little Comedy"
becomes Mrs. Bunbury, 316; present at
the rehearsals of She Stoops to Conquer,