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.

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.

iii. 263.

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.
254.

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,
iii. 127.

Pretender, the, failure of his expe-
dition to Scotland, iv. 233.
Pride and anger, their connection
and hurtful effects, i. 323; iii.

178.

Prince, trifling studies improper
for a, iii. 138.

Prior, character of his Alma, iv.

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. 295.
Repose, why men do not find it,
iii. 269.

Reputation, usefulness of, iii. 175.
Resentment of the poor, impotent,
iii. 178.

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.

Rock, Dr, account of, iii. 197.
Rollin, observation of his, ii. 249.
Roman History, Preface to the,
iv. 272.

Romances injurious to youth, i.
313, iii. 240.

Roubiliac the sculptor, his trial of
Goldsmith's musical knowledge,
i. 17, note.
Rousseau of Geneva, iv. 25.
Russian Empire, the natural enemy
of the rest of Europe, iii. 250.
Russians, their prudence in the
treatment of their wives, iii. 53;
marriage ceremony, ib.

Sabinus and Olinda, iv. 164.
Satire, its origin, ii. 238.
Saxons, their capital punishments
few, ii. 123.

Scandal improves by opposition, ii.
64; avoiding it, no fault in an
author, iv. 61.

Scarron, a practice of his, i. 116;
title he gave himself, 308.
Sceptic, his mode of debating, ii.
185.

Scepticism hurtful to the cause of
literature, iv. 27.

School, its meaning in the polite
arts, ii. 278.

Schoolmen, their way of computing
the abilites of their authors, iii. 3.
Schoolmaster, village, described, i.
100.

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 persone
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
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
of i. 141.

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.

Splendid Shilling, character of that
poem, iv. 292.

Sprat, Bishop, his reason for the
gravity of the English, iv. 166.
Spriggins, Mr, account of his sing-
ing, ii. 164.
Stag, fable of the, i. 147.
Stage, compared to Ariosto's lunar
world, i. 145; influenced by party,
iv. 43.

Stage players, harshness of the laws
towards, iii. 246; how they
should be treated, 247.
St Pavier, imitated, i. 139.

Stories, how they gain strength, iii.

201

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.
28.

Tails, some families having, iii. 45.
Takupi, story of his accusation, iii.
283.

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.