EXTRACTS OF LETTERS READ AT THE MEETING.
From Mr, now Sir Walter Scott, dated in April, 1818, observing that the neglect of the birth-place of Goldsmith is rather discreditable to the country which derives so much honour from his birth.
From a gentleman present at the meeting, whose exertions, on this occasion, received the unanimous thanks of those assembled at it, John Hogan of Auburn, Esq.
Circumstances led me, in the early part of my life, to the knowledge of part of Goldsmith's family, and to the acquaintance of his nephew, Mr William Hudson, whose beautiful elegy on the death of several members of his family, including the Poet, bears the strongest marks of hereditary genius, and the lost stanza of which I make no doubt of being able to recover. You may suppose I became interested in every thing bolonging to the Poet. When I settled on the spot, attempted to replace some of the almost forgotten identities that delighted me forty years since. I rebuilt his Three Jolly Pigeons,' restored his Twelve Good Rules, and Royal Game of Goose,' enclosed his Hawthorn Tree,' now almost cut away by the devotion of the literary pilgrims who resort to it; I also planted his favourite hill before Lissoy gate. that spot which presented to his eye the most agreeable horizon in nature; and, had not family affairs led me to reside in England for some years, I should have done a great deal more to gratify myself, and to point out the localities of the charming scene of the Deserted Village. "Some years past, a gentleman named Newell, a fellow of Cambridge, came over here on a literary tour, and sketched these scenes alluded to in the poem, with great truth and spirit. On his return to England, he published an edition of Goldsmith's Poems in thin quarto, embellished by those views, and enriched by copious notes on the Deserted Village, proving the scenery of Lissoy to have been uppermost in the poet's mind, while composing it. He meant to have followed this up, by soliciting subscriptions for some public testimonial to the memory of Goldsmith, on the spot of the Deserted Village, and even on that mount before Lissoy gate, which he mentioned with so much enthusiasm in one of his letters; but Mr Newell died before he could accomplish his wish." Several other letters were read to the meeting.
John Hogan, Esq. being called to the chair, it was resolved, that a committee and secretary should be appointed, for the purpose of managing the concerns of this undertaking: and it was also resolved, that Lord Viscount Newcomén and Company be requested to receive the subscriptions.
ABENSBERG (Count) famous story of, ii. 7.
Abilities, moderate, most useful to their possessor, iii. 177. Accidental meetings, reflections on, ii. 146.
Acis and Galatea, Ovid's, its pathos, ii. 30.
Acting, rules of, for a strolling player, ii. 201.
Actors, stiff deportment of English, iv. 62.
Actresses, beauty a requisite in, iv. 64; cautions to, 86. Addison, his deficiency in conversa- tion, i. 58; character of his letter from Italy, iv. 290.
Adultery rewarded rather than punished, iii. 52.
Advice to a pupil, i. 321; who qualified to give, iii. 177. Eschylus improved the drama, ii.
Age, why it lessens the enjoyments and increases the desire of life, iii. 213.
Alcander and Septimius, iv. 65. Alehouse, village, described, i. 100. Alehouses should be put under restraints, iv. 122. Alexander, his generous confidence, ii. 227; could not pass for a god with his countrymen, iii. 321.
| Altama, gloomy picture of, i. 103. Altangi, Lien Chi, citizen of the
world, his motives for seeing England, iii. 9; fate of his family, 21; becomes reconciled to the English, 23; his high opinion of the kindness of London ladies, ib.; deceived, 25; account of his travels, 27; visit to Westminster Abbey, 34; interview with a lady of fashion, 39; fate of his son, 61; visits a lady of rank, and how treated, 94; remarks on St Paul's, and the religious wor- ship performed there, Ï17; chal- lenge to Dr Rock, 199; surprise at the behaviour of a company during a song, 208; goes to a mercer's shop, and how served, 224; observations on theatres and dramatic authors, 228; on the English ladies, 233; his fas- tidiousness as to books, 273; reflections at midnight, 324; joy at the arrival of his son, 339; plan of his future life, 341. Amanuensis, Goldsmith's attempt to use one, i. 28. Anaxagoras, his reflections on the death of his sons, ii. 222. Animals, advantage of their preying on each other, ii. 177. Answerers of books, their office, iii. 36.
Antiquaries, ignorance of, iii. 256. Ariosto, his notion about the moon, i. 145.
Aristocratical government, what it ends in, iii. 164. Aristophanes, his attack upon So- crates, ii. 242; aim of his writings, 243.
Aristotle, his opinion in regard to
poetry and music, ii. 233. Art, blessings afforded by, i. 83. Arts and sciences, whether more hurtful or beneficial to mankind, iii. 235; circunstances necessary to their growth, iv. 6. Asem, the man hater, ii. 174. Asia, room for discovery there, iii. 299.
Asiatics, their treatment of the fair sex, iii. 278. Auburn, village of, described, i. 95; its desolation, 96; Goldsmith hoped to spend his old age there, 97; opinions as to its locality, iv. 316.
Augusta, her beneficence, i. 152. Augustan age of England, an account of, iv. 172. Authorities in law, arguments against, iii. 276. Author's bedchamber described, i.
Authors, how they view each other, ii. 87; their quarrels, iii. 54; how French and English speak of each other, 55; description of a club of, 82; poor hardly treated, 166; should not be made too rich, iv. 30; contempt they have to encounter, 33; useful in re- pressing crime, 36.
Babylon, song denouncing her doom,
i. 162: boasted antiquity of, 163. Bachelors, old, how they should be treated, iii. 79; numerous in England, and why, 212. Bacon, his daring genius, iii. 298. Bards, respect paid to them in Ireland, ii. 283.
Barnard, Dr, Dean of Derry, i, 117, note; his epitaph, 117;
lines to Goldsmith and Cumber.. land, 126.
Barret, faults of his translation of Ovid's Epistles and specimens of the work, ii. 307. Bastard, a poem, character of Savage's, iv. 293. Bawdry and pertness fashionable, iii. 154. Beattie, Dr, i. 58.
Beau, character and occupation of, iii. 26; philosophical, 288. Beauty, natural and moral connec- ted, ii. 225; of person does not secure affection, iii. 221; diffe- rent ideas of, 321.
Beauty and grace, allegory of, iii. 221.
Bee, Magazine published weekly, by Goldsmith, i. 24, iv. 57; reflections on its small success, 100.
Bentivoglio, his hard fortune, iii.
Berlin Academy, account of, iv. 18. Bidderman, a Flemish tradition, iv. 104.
Blaize, Mrs Mary, elegy on, i. 136. Blemiae, their singular formation, iii. 44.
Boarding-school, qualifications of an usher in one, ii. 84. Bolingbroke, Lord, Life of, by Goldsmith, i. 36; editor's notice of it, iv. 212. Bolingbroke, Lord, his birth, iv. 214; education, ib. ; great natu- ral endowments, 215; marriage, 216; made secretary of state, 218; quarrels with Lord Oxford, 220; removed from office, 222; goes into banishment to avoid impeachment, 224; his attainder, 226; joins in the intrigues of the Jacobites, 229; dismissed by the Pretender, and impeached for betraying his party, 235; his vindication, 238; is pardoned, and returns home, 239; his manner of living, 241; his Dis- sertation on Parties, 244; retires to France, ib.; his occupations there, 246; return to England,
to enable Goldsmith to make the tour of Asia, i. 31, note. Byron a defender of Pope, i. 64.
and death, 248; character, 249; | Bute, Lord, applied to for a salary will, 250; list of his works, 252; Johnson's censure of, ib. note. Books, advantages of, ii. 102; their great number, and whether a proof of learning, iii. 82; convey erroneous views of human life, 194.
Breeding, rules shewing Russian ideas of, ii. 205. Brianton, Robert, Esq. letter to, describing Scotland and Scottish manners, i. 299. Bridges (Sir Egerton) his objections to Goldsmith's poetry, i. 66. Britain, her happy climate, i. 89, iii. 200; noble qualities of her inhabitants, i. 90; their indepen- dence threatens by its excess to extinguish the social affections, and make avarice the governing principle, 90; state of learning in, iv. 30.
Brooke's System of Natural History, preface to, by Goldsmith, i. 37, iv. 261. Bulkley, Mrs, epilogue spoken by, and Miss Catley, i. 142. Burke, Mr, his testimony to Gold- smith's merit while at college, i. 8; experiment upon Gold- smith's vanity, 54; epitaph, 117. Burke, Mr William, i. 117, note; his epitaph, 117.
Burke, Richard, i. 117, note; epitaph on, 117.
Cadence, what, ii. 278. Calamity, great source of, iii. 129. Camoens, in what state he died, iii. 242.
Canada, the French and English dispute its possession, iii. 46. Capacity, natural difference in, ii. 220; contradistinguished from taste, 221.
Captivity, Oratorio of the, i. 156. Caravagio, story of, iv. 133. Carolan, last of the Irish bards, ii, 284.
Cart race, description of, iii. 248. Cartesian System, a state containing many opulent men resembles the, ii. 79.
Carvel, Hans, a poem of Prior's, i. 36, note; its character, iv. 293. Cassander died exasperated by mis- fortune, iii. 243.
Catharina Alexowna, Empress of Russia, her efforts to improve her subjects, ii. 204; history, iii. 180. Celibacy, its prevalence, iii. 252. Ceremony, what purpose it serves,
Certainty, land of, and guides to, an allegory, iii. 106.
Cervantes died of want, iii. 342. Charity of the English, striking instance of, iii. 63.
Charles XII, anecdotes of, iv. 79. Charteris, Colonel, satirical epitaph on, iv. 58, note. Cheerfulness not to be produced by effort, ii. 114.
Chesterfield, Lord, his account of Bolingbroke's illness, iv. 253. China, short view of its history, government, religion, manners, and customs, iii. 7; mistaken notion of the English regarding, 94; its history compared with that of Europe, 120; symptoms and cause of her decline, 184; merciful spirit of her laws, 230.
Chinese surprised that Europeans think as accurately as themselves, iii. 3; their idea of beauty, 12; acquaintance with European learning and arts, 97. Chinese Letters, the Citizen of the World, first appeared under that title, i. 24
Choang and Hansi, a tale of con- jugal affection, iii 49. Choice spirits, club of, ii. 164. Cibber, Theophilus, ludicrous me- moir of, ii. 206. Circumstances, merit owes its suc- cess partly to, iv. 60. Cities, large, the soil of great virtues and great vices, iii. 287. Citizen of the World, when written, i. 24; its character, 63; advan- tages of its plan, iii. 7; style, 4; notice respecting, 7. Citizen of the World, a philosopher praised for calling himself so, ii. 216.
Clairon, Mademoiselle, her graceful acting described, iv. 84. Clare, Lord, poetical epistle to,
Cognoscento, in what the secret of being one consists, ii. 93. Collins, Mr, iv. 37, note; character of his Selim, 292.
Colman, brings forward Gold- smith's comedy of the Good Natured Man, at Covent Garden, i. 33; gives the comedy of She Stoops to Conquer a trial, 40; his sarcastic answer to Gold- smith, 43; kindness acknow- ledged, 170.
Colonies should be in proportion to the mother country, iii. 47; im- policy of transplanting the best subjects thither, 48. Comedy, posterior to tragedy, ii. 241; foundation of, ib.; licen- tiousness of, ib.; its province, 289; the new, by whom intro-
duced, ii. 243; the sentimental,
its merits examined, ii. 290. Comic poets, notice of the principal ancient ones, ii. 242. Commerce, impolicy of England cultivating that alone, iii. 67. Commercial states in time become aristocratic, ii. 79.
Conceits, examples of, ii. 262. Confucius, his opinion as to the duty of the learned, iii. 55. Conjuror and tailor, story of, iii. 178.
Conscience soon silenced, ii. 52. Contarine, Rev. Mr, assists in Goldsmith's education, i. 5, 11; enables him to study at Leyden, 14; his death, 19; Goldsmith's letter to him describing his voyage to Rotterdam, and the manners of the Dutch, 302; his legacy to Goldsmith, 317, note. Controversy not the best employ-
ment for the clergy, ii. 185. Convent, history of a, ii. 189. Conversation, reason for shunning no man's, ii. 114. Court offices, Eastern, some that might be introduced with advan- tage in England, iii. 304. Corneille did not shine in company, i. 58.
Cradock, Joseph, i. 125, note. Crispe, Mr, some account of his office, ii. 90. Crebillon, junior, iv. 26. Critics, iii. 56; what sort of person is fitted for being one, 149; first corrupters of ancient literature, iv. 7. Criticising, manner of, in China, superior to that in England, iii. 165.
Criticisms, notice of Goldsmith's, ii. 298.
Criticism, its increase portends the decay of learning, iv. 38. Croaker, what suggested the idea of, i. 33.
Croaker, Mrs, wife of the preced- ing, i. 179.
Croker, Mr, objects to Gold-
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