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smith's being ranked in the
Johnsonian school, i. 62.
Cumberland, his account of the
first performance of She Stoops
to Conquer, i. 40; his character
of Goldsmith's conversation, 58;
his prose, 62; some account of,
117, note; his epitaph, 119;
supplement to Goldsmith's Reta-
liation, 124.

Curiosity must be excited before
reason exert its powers, iii. 236.
Custom superior to written law,
iv. 158.

Cyrillo Padovano, the noted sleep-
walker, iv. 183.

Cyrus, his conquest of Babylon,
i. 64.

Damien, Robert Francis, his cruel

punishment, i. 93, note.
D'Alembert, iv. 26.
Dancing, different estimate of, in
England and China, iii. 59.
Dante, revolution in literature pro-
duced by his poetry, iv. 14.
Daures, their religion, iii. 28; cus-
toms, 29.

Davies, Thomas, memorandums of
Goldsmith's agreement to write
certain histories for him, i. 325.
Death, when terrible, i. 150; just
view of, 151; that of the youthful
happy, ii. 131.

Debt, three ways of getting into, ii.
207.

Deceit and falsehood an overmatch

for truth, iv. 167.
Degeneracy of the age denied, ii.
185; picture of, 187.
Demigods, what produced, iii. 319.
Denmark, state of polite learning in,
iv. 21.

Deserted Village, a poem; object of
the poem to shew the evils of
luxury, i. 94.

Desires, misery of, without the capa-
city of enjoying, iii. 237.
Devil, rules for raising, ii. 173.
Diderot, iv. 26.

Dinner, description of one, i. 115;
reasons for liking, ii. 198.

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Distinction, desire of; disquieting
to its possessor, but useful to
society, iii. 187.
Distress, the proper object of tra-
gedy, ii. 290.

Dodd, Reverend Dr, i. 119.
Doctors, in England, cure each a
particular part, iii. 197; charac-
ter of the most eminent advertis-
ing, 197.

Dog, way of knowing a mad, iii.
201; his attachment to man, 203.
Douglas, Dr, some account of, i.

117, note; his epitaph, 119.
Dramatic authors, requisites in, iii.

229.

Dramatic poetry, origin of, ii. 238.
Dress, the rich in England not dis-
tinguished by, iii. 150; its influ-
ence on the mind, 151; propriety
of a law against dressing above
one's rank, 152; bad taste of the
English in, iv. 72; love of, fos-
tered in the young, 95.
Drummond, Adam, his remarkable
laugh, i. 41.

Dryden, did not excel in conversa-
tion, i. 58; lived by his pen, ii.
85; iii. 266; character of his
translation of Ovid's Epistles, ii.
306; improved the English
tongue, iv. 174.

Duellist, not different from a mur-
derer, ii. 140.

Dunces, how useful, iii. 220.
Durfey, Tom, obscenity of his writ-
ings, iii. 155; some account of,
155, note.

Dutch, their power in Europe much
less than in Asia, iii. 164; abject
submissions for gain, 326.

Earth and Animated Nature, His-
tory of, Dr Johnson's prediction
regarding it, i. 38; estimate of
its merits, 38; preface to, iv. 280.
Eating, a primary object with the
English, iii. 309.

Edinburgh, its society not to Gold-
smith's liking, i. 13.

Education, faults in the mode of, | Epitaph, specimen of a harmless

ii. 222; what kind preferable,
iv. 46, 138.

Edwin and Angelina, story of, i. 108.
French translation of, iv. 309.
Eidyllia, criticism on, ii. 317.
Election described, iii. 309.
Ellis, Dr, his liberality to Gold-
smith, i. 15.

Eloisa to Abelard, character of
Pope's, iv. 289.
Eloquence, end and origin of, ii.
234; prompted by nature, iv, 150;
a talent, not an art, 151; recom-
mended to the clergy, 155.
Enemies, true method of destroying,
iii. 232.

England, much altered for the worse,
i. 96; constitution of, iii. 146.
England, Goldsmith's history of, in
a series of letters from a nobleman
to his son, i. 26; his larger his-
tory of, 34; preface to the latter,
iv. 276.

English, some features of their cha-
racter, iii. 13; instance of their
politeness, 15; their excellence in
the art of healing, 66; curiosity
for sights and monsters, 130; in
what their freedom consists, 144;
their contentious spirit, 245; good
and bad qualities, 262.
English clergy, their superior advan-
tages, ii. 180; cause of their un-
popularity, 181.

English language admits of the same
measures as Greek and Latin, ii.
276.

English poetry, Beauties of, preface
to, iv. 287; remarks on the pieces
in that collection, 288.
Enlightened periods coeval over the
world, iii. 185.

Enthusiasm, instances of in men of
genius, ii. 244.

Enthusiasms, advantages of, iv. 156.
Epicure, refined, iii. 152.
Epidemic terror, what kind of dis-
ease, iii. 200.
Epigram, debate carried on by, iii.
311; specimens of, 313.
Epitaph on Goldsmith, i. 51; let-
ters relating to, iv. 322.

flattering one, iii. 293.

Epitaphs, what may be concluded
from, iii. 33.

Essay, a short one necessarily super-
ficial, ii. 162.

Essays, Goldsmith's, editor's notice
of, ii. 160; author's preface to,
161.

Europe, character of its history, iii.
123; numerous titles of its princes,

332.

Europeans, monstrous fables in their
books, iii. 43.

Evans, the bookseller, Goldsmith's
quarrel with, i. 43, iv. 320.
Excess, men abridged in one, fall
into another, iii. 169.
Expenses, unnecessary, censured,
iv. 119.

Experimental philosophy, introduc-
tion to a survey of, iv. 300; prin-
cipal improvers of, 302.

Faces, ladies have two, iii. 13.
Falstaff, pleasure afforded by the
character of, ii. 185.

Fame, unjust distribution of, among
the female sex, iii. 180; most
difficult to acquire in a polite age,
219, iv. 5; seldom conferred upon
living merit, iii. 302.

Fame machine, a reverie on the
travellers by, iv. 125.

Fashion, club of, ii. 168; qualifica-
tions of a woman of, in former
times, 192.

Fashionable letters, specimens of
Chinese and English, iii. 113.
Fat man in a shipwreck, story of
one, ii. 161.

Favours, receiving, lowers a man,
iii. 280; to seem to want, not the
way to obtain, iv. 89.
Feelings, our own, not a proper
standard of those of others, ii. 25.
Females, proposal to make warriors
of, ii. 213.

Ferrers, Lord, his execution, iii. 110,

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Filial obedience, importance of, to
a state, iii. 120.
Fine gentleman, trades required to
make one, iii. 11; description of,

12.

Fine lady contrasted with a Chinese
beauty, iii. 12.

Fineering, practice of, explained, ii
207.

Fits, their use in modern tragedy,
iii. 60.

Flatterer, the situation of one disa-

greeable, iii. 76.
Flattery, proposal to erect it into a
profession, iii. 305; should not be
bestowed on the young, iv. 141.
Fools, we should not be angry at men
for being, ii. 168.
Fordyce, Dr, attends Goldsmith in
his last illness, i. 49.
Foreigners, their opinion of the
English, iii. 262.

Fortitude, an imaginary virtue, iii.

137.

Fortune, not blind, iii. 203.
Fortune hunter, a contemptible
character, ii. 22.

France, the land of mirth and social
ease, i. 87; allusion to the author's
partaking in the amusements of
that country, 87; vanity of its
inhabitants, 88; beginning to
assert its freedom, iii. 164; polite
learning in, iv. 23.
Franks, Dr Timothy, iii. 198.
Freedom, dangers it is exposed to,
i. 91; degree of attainable, 91;
mistaken ideas of, 91; favourable
to the arts and sciences, iv. 6.
Freethinking, evils of, ii. 28.
Freijo, Padre, some particulars con-
cerning, iv. 98.
French, dignity of their preachers,
ii. 182; peculiarities of their man-
ner, iii. 226; their levity contri-
butes to their happiness, iv. 23;
eminent living authors, 25.
Frenchman, sentiments of one on
the temper of the English, iv. 16.
Friend, duties of a great man's
humble, ii. 87.

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Gaming, different stakes of the
English and Chinese ladies in,
iii. 285.

Garden, a Chinese, iii. 89.
Gardening, English, iii. 89.
Garth, Dr, character of his Dispen-
sary, iv. 291.

Garrick, Mr, declines representing
Goldsmith's Good-Natured Man,
i. 33; his remark on Goldsmith's
dress, 53; contrast he makes be-
tween Goldsmith's writing and
conversation, 58; his description
of Goldsmith's character, 61; his
epitaph, 120; two poems on
Goldsmith, 123.

Gaubius, professor of Chemistry at
Leyden; Goldsmith studies under
him, i. 14, 305; iv. 31.
Gay, character of his Shepherd's
Week, iv. 290.

Geometry strengthens the powers of
the mind, ii. 230.
Generosity, how acts of, affect a

person of taste, ii. 226; will pro-
cure esteem but not love, iii. 190.
Genius, of slow growth attains great
perfection, ii. 220; instances of
that, 221; rewards of, improperly
applied, iv. 30.

German Empire threatened with
dissolution, iii. 163.

Germany, state of polite learning in,
iv. 16.

Ghost in Cock Lane, story of, ii.

167.

Friends, better than grateful depen-
dants, iii. 193; easily reconciled, | Giant and a Dwarf, fable of, ii. 50.

Gift, The, a poem, i. 129.
Godinot, a reputed miser, iv. 97.
Goldsmith, Rev. Charles, some ac-
count of, i. 3.

Goldsmith, Rev. Henry, some ac-
count of, i. 4; The Traveller
dedicated to him, 79; Goldsmith
approves s his choice of an obscure
life, 79; Goldsmith's letter to
him, 311; Goldsmith's advice to
him on the education of his son,
313.

Goldsmith, Maurice, some account
of, i. 315, note; Goldsmith's let-
ter to, 315.
Goldsmith, Oliver, his variety of
genius, i. 2; birth and parentage,
3; education, 4; adventure, said
to have furnished the idea of She
Stoops to Conquer, 5; enters
Trinity College, Dublin, 6; leaves
College, and intends to quit his
country, 7; is brought back, 7;
made A. B. 9; concerned in a riot,
9; loses his father, 9; fails to
obtain licence as a clergyman, 9;
his desire to travel, 10; adven-
tures in one of his excursions, 10;
his friends wish him to study law,
11; sent to Edinburgh to study
physic, 12; his behaviour, 12;
leaves college without a diploma,
13; arrives at Rotterdam, after a
narrow escape from shipwreck,
14; studies medicine at Leyden,
14, 304; his thoughtless extrava-
gance, 15; performs the tour of
Europe, 16; his destitute state on
arriving in London, 19; becomes
usher in an academy, 20; acts as
journeyman to a chemist, 21;
commences practitioner in South-
wark, 21; applies to the book-
sellers for employment, 21; writes
occasionally in the reviews, 21;
first dramatic attempt, 21; gets an
appointment in India, but never
entered upon it, 22; dissolves an
engagement to write for the
Monthly Review, 22; publishes
his Inquiry into the Present State
of Polite Learning, 23; his lite-
rary occupations, 24; Citizen of

the World, and Vicar of Wake-
field, 24; extricated from a disa-
greeable dilemma by Dr Johnson,
25; writes a History of England,
and a Survey of Experimental
Philosophy, 26; adopts a splendid
style of living, 27; his attention
to dress, 28; frequents the meet-
ings of the Literary Club, 29;
publishes his Traveller, ib. ; intro-
duced to the Earl of Northumber-
land, 30; his scheme of making
the tour of Asia, 31; facility of
imposing on him by flattery, 32;
the Deserted Village, 33; his
manner of composing in prose and
verse, 33; excuse for writing so
little poetry, 54; publishes his
Roman History, and History of
England, 34; price he received
for his histories, 34; Dr Johnson's
estimate of his merits as a histo-
rian, 35; writes Lives of Parnell
and Bolingbroke, 36; publishes
his Beauties of English Poetry,
36; undertakes his History of the
Earth and Animated Nature, 37;
what he received for it, 39; She
Stoops to Conquer, 39; his as-
sault upon Evans, the publisher
of the London Packet, 44; pub-
lishes his Vindication, 44; his
project of a Universal Dictionary of
Arts and Sciences, 46; becomes
subject to a serious disorder, 47;
his alternate habits of intense
study and dissipation, 47; causes
of his poverty, 48; is seized with
a violent fever, 48; his death, 49;
funeral, 50; monument to him in
Poet's Corner, with inscription by
Johnson, 50; English inscription
proposed, 50, note; his vanity in
regard to his person, 52; laugh-
able instance of his love of praise,
53; envious of the reputation of
other authors, 55; made no figure
in conversation, 55; instance of
his absence of mind, 59; his
moral character, 59; estimate of
his character as a man, 61; his
merits as a prose writer, 62; as a
poet, 63; remarks on his princi-

pal poetical pieces, 64; made
Professor of Ancient History to
the Royal Academy of Painting,
316; celebration of his birthday,

iv. 323.

Good man struggling with adversity,
who a nobler object than, ii.

139.
Good-Natured Man, when produced,
i. 33; its character and reception,
33; editor's notice of, 169; dra-
matis personæ, 170; prologue, by
Johnson, 171.

Gout, a clerical disorder, iii, 167.
Government best administered by
a few, iii. 282.

Gratitude and love, their difference,
iii. 191.

Gray, character of his Elegy, iv.
288.

Great, their distresses excite most
pity, ii. 290, iii. 328; to be pitied
more than envied, 187; exposed
to flatterers, iii. 282.

Great men, multitude of, iii. 215;
little, iv. 146.
Greatness, characteristics of, iv.

110.

Grécourt imitated, i. 129.
Gresset, his style, iv. 26.
Guilt and shame, an allegory, ii. 61.

Hamlet's soliloquy, a heap of absur-
dities, ii. 256; objections to the
author's opinion of, 259, note.
Handel at the head of the English
school of music, ii. 280.
Happiness, each nation supposes its
own country to possess most, i.
83; every state has a favourite
kind of, 84; human imperfect,
ii. 132; no system of, suited to
all conditions, iii. 126; constitu-
tional, 129, iv. 81.
Harmonical Society, account of,
ii. 166.

Hawkins, Sir John, story told by
him of Goldsmith, i. 17, note;
particulars of Goldsmith's inter-
view with the Earl of Northum-
berland, 31; malignity of his
statements, 55.
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Heart, its education should precede
that of the understanding, ii.

227.

Henriquez, Jacob, an example of
Christian fortitude, ii. 211.
Henry IV. of France, affecting

instance of his humanity, ii. 227.
Hermit, a ballad, remarks on it,
i. 67; how far original, 106,
note; attempt to prove it a trans-
lation from the French, iv. 309.
Hickey, Mr, i. 117, note; epitaph
on, 121.

High Life Below Stairs, remarks on
the farce of, iv. 130.

History of the World, introduction
to a new, iv. 267.

History, advantages of knowing,
ii. 230.

Hobbes, his opinion concerning
laughter, iv. 165.

Hodson, Daniel, Esq. Goldsmith
gives him an account of his cir-
cumstances, i. 305; Goldsmith
mentions to him his Indian ap-
pointment, 308.

Hogarth, Mr, his opinion of con-
noisseurs, iv. 40.

Holberg, Baron, Goldsmith's de-
scription of his tour of Europe,
i. 16, iv. 21.
Holland, the patience of its inha-
bitants, i. 88; their industry and
love of gain, 89; contrasted with
Scotland, 304; operation of its
laws, ii. 80; state of polite learn-
ing in, iv. 16.

Home, distress of a family at leaving,
i. 104; attachment to, iii. 287.
Homer, beauties of his poetry,
ii. 247; his poverty, iii. 242.
Honest man the noblest work of

God, that maxim disputed, ii. 60.
Hope the solace of the wretched,
i. 161.

Horace, what he said of genius
applicable to taste, ii. 219; cha-
racter of his writings, 229.
Horneck, the Misses, Goldsmith
accompanies them to Paris, i. 39.
Hospitality commended, ii. 24.
Hume, his principles blamed, iv.

278.

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