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.
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.
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,
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,
Filial obedience, importance of, to a state, iii. 120. Fine gentleman, trades required to make one, iii. 11; description of,
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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. VOL IV.
Heart, its education should precede that of the understanding, ii.
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.
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