Obscure ages, view of, iv. 11; some | Philosopher, diary of a desponding,
of the principal writers of, 12. Old maids, that state not invo- luntary, iii. 80. Opposition, within due bounds, salutary, ii. 209; not incompatible with national concord, 210. Opera, state of in England, iv. 179. Otway, his pathos, ii. 224. Ovid, his false taste, ii. 224; diffi- culty of translating, 307.
Paine, Thomas, his letter to Gold- smith, i. 320.
Painter, story of a, iii. 179. Painting, poetry a kind of, ii. 246; undue partiality to, iii. 98. Parnell, Dr, epitaph on, i. 138; account of his life, iv. 189; Pope's letters to him, 197; joint letter of his friends to him, 198; his merits as a poet, 204; remarks on his poetical pieces, 205. Party, its effects on the mind, i. 80.
Passion employs figurative language, ii. 254.
Passions, the source of our pleasures as well as misfortunes, iii. 137; the business of philosophy in regard to, 138. Patience, man not aware of its extent till tried, ii. 75. Patronage of genius, formerly fa- shionable among the nobility, iv. 39.
Peace-makers, a kind of judges in Holland, their usefulness, iv.
Peasantry, a bold, once destroyed, cannot be replaced, i. 96. Penal laws, bad effects of their severity, ii. 123; heaviest on the poor, iii. 230; impolicy of, 231. Percy, Dr, Bishop of Dromore, his life of Goldsmith, i. 2, note; description of Goldsmith's lodg- ing, 22.
Pergolese, his music, ii. 278. Persians, their extravagant honour to Ali, iii. 320. Philosopher, indigent, his speech in favour of a war with Spain, ii. 172; rules for behaviour, ib.
Philosophers, reflections suggested by their fates, iii. 124. Philosophy, its consolations insuffi- cient, ii. 133; its advantages, iii. 129. Philosophy, Goldsmith's Survey of Experimental, its character, i. 26; introduction to, iv, 300. Physicians, advertising, receive their knowledge by inspiration, iii. 67; much encouraged, 196. Pilkington, Mr, imposes upon Goldsmith, i. 48, note.
Piozzi, Mrs, weight due to her statements, i. 55.
Pirates, cruel punishment of the Wolga, iii. 267.
Pity, incompatible with friendship, iv. 88; seldom leads to great effects, 89.
Plato, his metaphors censured, ii.
Playhouse, description of the spec- tators, and performance at, iii. 57.
Pleasing all, not to be attempted, iii. 179.
Pleasure, a man of, often very miserable, iii. 176.
Pleasures, why the prospect of,
delights more than the fruition, ii. 39; all hinge upon sense, iii. 20.
Poetry, the Art of, by Goldsmith, i. 26, note.
Poetry, a chief amusement among unpolished nations, i. 79; apt to be supplanted by painting and music, 79, iii. 98; in what re- spect not strictly according to nature, ii. 232; origin of, 234; distinctive qualities of, 245. Poets, their enviable faculty of hoping, ii. 285; not necessarily versifiers, iii. 116; some prose writers deserving the title of, 116; prior to prose writers, ib. iv.7; faults of modern English, iii. 117; their character every where the same, 241; instances of poor, 242; their poverty an improper subject of ridicule, iv. 36.
Poles, their manners, iv. 69. Polite Learning, Goldsmith's in- quiry into the present state of, when written, i. 22; its charac- ter, 23; publication, ib. ; intro- duction to, iv. 3.
Polite learning, character of a na- tion with posterity depends on their, iv. 11; great men owe their immortality to, 29. Politeness introduced by degrees, ii. 206; true, everywhere the same, iii. 112.
Politics, passion of the English for, iii. 15; how gratified, 16. Poor, folly of their attempts to cope with the rich, ii. 50; their sorrows unheeded, iii. 325, 328. Pope, the, contrary accounts of, iii. 43.
Pope, Mr, controversy about, i. 64; his translation of Homer, ii. 247; blamed for exposing Parnell, iv. 202.
Popular governments, rigour of, iii. 145.
Posterity, a draft upon, ii. 162. Poverty, advantages and disadvan- tages of, iii. 195; necessity of concealing, and hints on the method, iv. 91.
Praise, when received as a favour, and when as a debt, ii. 203. Preacher, description of one, i. 98; requisites in a popular, ii. 182. Precedent, effect of governing by, iii. 335.
Precocity of talent seldom leads to great excellence, ii. 220. Prejudice, absurdity of national, ii. 216; not inseparable from love of country, 217. Present, enjoying the, considered,
Punishments, capital, when right, ii. 122.
Purdon, Edward, epitaph on, i. 138.
Purse, what kind the most lucky, ii. 48.
Pyron, his wit, iv. 25.
Quebec, stanzas on the taking of, i. 138.
Quickly, Mrs, imaginary dialogue with, at the Boar's Head Tavern, ii. 187.
Rabelais, his remark on reckonings, ii. 165.
Radcliff, Dr, assists Goldsmith in procuring a situation, i. 20. Raimond et Angeline, French translation of the Hermit, iv.
Ranelagh, a market for wives, ii. 70.
Rank, a glaring instance of its screening guilt, iii. 111.
Rape of the Lock, its character, iv. 288.
Reading, how it should be conduct- ed, iii. 240.
Reason, a weak antagonist of pas-
sion, ii. 181; result of governing by, iii. 335.
Refinement not suited to poverty, ii. 37.
Religion, its superiority to philo- sophy, ii. 133.
Repentance justly more prized than undeviating rectitude, ii. 105. Reports, credulity of the English in regard to, iii. 293. Repose, why men do not find it, iii. 269.
Retaliation, a poem, i. 116. Retirement, blessings of, i. 97. Rets, Cardinal de, his happy temper, iv. 83.
Reviewers, their unfeeling disposi- tion, iv. 39.
Revolutions, those of wisdom slow and difficult; those of folly the reverse, iii. 163.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, his supposi- tion in regard to Goldsmith's conversation, i. 58; the Deserted Village dedicated to him, 94; epitaph on, 121; Goldsmith's letter to, from Calais, 317. Rhyme, its proper meaning, ii. 273; in some cases indispensable, 317; its propriety defended, iv.
Schoolmasters, their services ill re- warded, iv. 136.
Sciences, where useless and where advantageous, iii. 236. Scotch, their pride, poverty, and formal manners, i. 300. Scotland, dismal aspect of, i. 299. Scottish ballad, probably derived from Italy, ii. 280.
Scott, Sir Walter, some improba- bilities in the Vicar of Wakefield pointed out by, i. 24; his enco- mium on the same, 63; estimate of Goldsmith as an author, 68. Scroggen, a needy author, and his chamber described, i. 135. Separation, more painful as the dis- tance increases, iii. 10; rendered supportable by correspondence, 23.
Sexes, their power of estimating
each other's qualities, ii. 35. She Stoops to Conquer, when repre- sented, and precautions used to ensure success, i. 39; its recep- tion, 42; Dr Johnson's observa- tion regarding it, 42; editor's notice of, 231; dedicated to Dr Johnson, 231; dramatis personæ of, 232; prologue by Garrick, 233. Shelburne, Lord, Goldsmith's blun- dering speech to, i. 49, note. Shenstone, the poet, reverie in his gardens, ii. 286; character of his Schoolmistress, iv. 289; of his Ballads, 295.
Sidney, Sir Philip, his attempt to
introduce the ancient measure in Strokes and dashes, their use, iii.
English poetry, ii. 277. Simile, one in the manner of Swift, i. 133; defined, ii. 264. Simplicity, natural, what, ii. 221. Simplification, excess of, hurtful to learning, iv. 28.
Singe, Dr, Bishop of Elphin, refuses licence to Goldsmith, i. 9. Sisters, The, prologue to the comedy
Sleigh, Dr, his kindness to Gold- smith, i. 21.
Slipper, to hunt the, description of the game, ii. 42.
Smollet, Dr, his kindness to Gold-
smith, i. 23; character of his Tears of Scotland, iv. 299, Societies formed through fear or friendship, ii. 178.
Soil and climate, influence of, iii. 260.
Soldier, his felicity never permanent, ii. 106; story of a disabled, iii.
329. Solitude, character of those who re- tire into, iii. 196.
Sophocles perfected the drama, ii. 240.
Sorrow, how to be borne, iii. 21. Spain, state of polite learning in, iv. 20.
Spanish, example of their gross ig- norance, iv. 98.
Spider, natural history of the, iv. 107.
Spleen, how it manifests itself, iii.
Strolling player's account of himself, ii. 188.
Study, importance of, in early life,
Sweden, political state of, iii. 164;
polite learning in, iv. 20. Swedes, their virtuous character, iv. 77; personal appearance, 78; their economy, 123.
Swift, imitations of, i. 131, 133; story of him and Parnell, iv. 203; character of his Rhapsody on Poetry, 291; of Cadenus and Vanessa, 296.
Swiss, their stormy and barren country, i. 86; simple enjoyments, and attachment to their country, 86.
Systems of all the sciences, volumi- nous, discourage application, iv.
Tails, some families having, iii. 45. Takupi, story of his accusation, iii.
Tamerlane, his reply to a flatterer, iii. 334.
Tartars of Koreki, curious custom of, iii. 93;
Tasso, his poverty, iii. 242. Taste, bad effects of false pretensions to, ii. 218; defined, 219; requires cultivation, ib.; how corrupted, 221; how improved, 225; a cri- terion of a nation's morals, iv. 52. Tavern, the true picture of human infirmities, ii. 195.
Tetrastic Greek, by Johnson, to the memory of Goldsmith, i. 52; imitated, 52, note.
Theatres, remarks on, iv. 62, 84. Theatrical writers, conversation on, ii. 76.
Theses, a custom in foreign universi- ties relating to, ii. 94. Thespis, inventor of the dramatic art, ii. 240.
Thief-takers, their cruelties, iii 259. Thomson, his description of the
restoration of liberty to Greece, ii. 226; character of his poetry, iv.
Thrale, the friend of Dr Johnson, i. 115.
Three Pigeons, The, song upon the alehouse so called, i. 239. Threnodia Augustalis, i. 148. Tibbs, Mr, the Beau, description of, iii 157; invites Altangi to dine, 160; at Vauxhall, 206; on the Asiatic treatment of women, 278; his description of the coronation, 290. Tibbs, Mrs, description of, iii. 161;
her affectation of gentility, 207. Tibullus, his pathos, ii. 229. Tickell, character of his poetry, iv. 294.
Tickle, Tom, his letter to Gold-
smith, iv. 320; Tickling Society of Florence, oration delivered at, iv. 148. Tillotson, not a perfect model of pulpit eloquence, iv. 156. Townshend, Mr T. i. 118, note. Trade, its unfeeling encroachments
upon the rural population, i. 96. Trains, remarks on ladies', iii. 233. Translations from the classics, use- fulness of, ii. 229. Translators, Madame La Fayette's, remark on bad, ii. 299. Transmigration of souls, what fol- lows from admitting the doctrine of, iii. 41.
Traveller, The, opinions of it, i. 29; its excellence as an ethic and de- scriptive poem, 64; its plan seems borrowed from Blackmore, 64; dedication of, 79; its aim to shew that every state has a par- ticular principle of happpiness, and that this may be carried to excess, 80.
Traveller, letter of a, describing the manners of the Poles, iv. 69. Travellers, the want of philosophi- cal, regretted, iii. 297. Travelling teaches us to think nothing ridiculous but vice, iii. 11; proper object of, 22; a means of extending useful know- ledge, 298.
Treaties, how broken, without either side being aggressor, iii.
Trifles, danger of loving, even for amusement, iii. 144; the lot of man to pursue, 336. Tropes and figures common rhetoric and poetry, ii. 247. Trott, John, his reply, i. 137. Truth, though dull, preferred by some to the highest flights of fancy, ii. 319.
Turton, Dr, attends Goldsmith in his last illness, i. 49.
Universities, merits of different, considered, iv. 48.
Vagabond, history of a philosophic, ii. 84; thought to be a sketch of Goldsmith's own adventures, i. 18.
Vanity, a multitude of trades depend on, iii. 11.
Vaugelas, his poverty and remark- able will, iii. 206. Vauxhall, its splendour, iii. 242. Veneration, many things obtain it by being concealed, iii. 155. Venice, its laws, ii. 80. Verse, difference of ancient and modern, ii. 274; specimens of lyric blank, 275, note; on what its harmony, grace, and expres sion depend, 277.
Versification, its influence, ii. 245; not essential to poetry, 246, iii. 115; defined, ii. ~272."
Vice, one, though cured, gives rise to others, ii. 106; vice and stupidity produce each other, iv. 51.
Vices, difference between those of an uncivilized and of a polished people, ii. 189, iii. 29. Virgil, beauties of his style, ii. 249. Virtue known only by an acquain-
tance with vice, ii. 179. Visitation, what it means, iii. 167;
dinner described, 168.
Voltaire, Goldsmith's life of, i. 314;
reflections on his death, iii. 123; sketch of his character, 124, iv. 25.
Voyage, feelings during a first, iii. 9. Vulgar, particular care should be taken of their morals, ii. 181.
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