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Humour, danger of banishing from
the stage, ii. 292; definition of,
iv. 42.
Husbands, most prudent conduct
for English, iii. 53; ladies advised
to get, 252.

Hyde, Lord, dissuades the publish-
ing of Bolingbroke's Letters on
History, iv. 255.

Hymns, their early use in religious
rites, ii. 235.

Hypasia, history of, iv. 92.
Hyperbole defined, ii. 269.

Ideal beauty, whence derived, ii.
231.

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Ignorance, happiness of the valley
of, iii. 105; is positive, 334.
Ill nature passes for wit, iv. 39.
Il Penseroso, its character, iv. 288.
Imagination, can recall the past,
73; a strong one, dangerous to
content, ii. 286.
Imitation, pleasure arising from,
ii. 232; foundation of the fine
arts, 244.
Inconstancy produced by a love of
reasoning, iii 334.
Insects, sagacity of, iv. 106.
Instinct, superior to reason, i. 132.
Insults, advantages to be drawn
from, iii. 239.

Invention and enthusiasm constitute
genius, ii. 244.
Ireland, Goldsmith's partiality to,
i. 306.

Iris, lines addressed to, i. 129.
Italy, combines all the richest
bounties of nature, i. 84; de-
graded condition of its inhabitants,
84; state of polite learning in,

iv. 14.

Jests, success of a rich man's, ii. 26.
Johnson, Dr, his opinion that Gold-
smith's talents were slow in matu-
ring disproved, i. 8; sells the
Vicar of Wakefield for him, 25;
his opinion of Goldsmith's fitness
for an Asiatic tour, 32; estimate
of Goldsmith as a historian, 35;

stands forth as the champion of
Goldsmith's comedy, She Stoops
to Conquer, 40; his observation
in regard to that piece, 42;
opinion as to Goldsmith's religion,
60; disclaims Goldsmith as an
imitator, 62; his estimate of Gold-
smith as an author, 67.
Justice, the greatest and most diffi-
cult of kingly virtues, iii. 109;
striking instance of, 110.
Justice and Generosity, a tale, iv.
95.

Kabul, story of his death and trans-
migration, iii. 42.

Kearney, Archdeacon, his evidence
that Goldsmith distinguished him-
self at college, i. 8.

Kelly, the dramatist, editor of the
Public Ledger, i. 24; some ac-
count of, 121, note.

Kenrick, Dr, his scurrilous letter
to Goldsmith, i. 43. iv. 320;
some account of, i. 119.
Kentish Town, remarks on, in the

style of modern travellers, iii.337.
Kilcoubry, Lord, a glover, i. 301.
Kings, when their praise is lasting,
i. 149; arguments in favour of,

ii. 78.
Knighthood, proposal to establish
in England an order of female,
iii. 305.

Knowledge of one's self, its impor-`
tance, i. 322.
Kunokephaloi, curious accounts of,
iii. 44.

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indulgent in monarchical than
popular governments, iii. 145;
in what the Chinese and English
differ, iii. 210.
Lawsuits, remarks on, iii. 277.
Lawyers, how they live, iii. 277.
Lee, Nathaniel, his rant, ii. 224.
Legislature should make reforma-
tion the aim of laws, ii. 122.
Lennox, Mrs Charlotte, an au-
thoress, i. 141, note.

Leo, the philosopher, his writings,

iv. 12.

Letters, republic of, that term
inappropriate, iii. 54.

Lies, trade in, carried on, iii. 16.
Life, miseries of, i. 178; what gives
it its true relish, ii. 285; to what
compared, iv. 51.

Lissoy supposed to be the scene of

the Deserted Village, i. 95, note.
Literary Club, some account of,

i. 28, note; contribute for a
monument to Goldsmith, 50.
Literary men, several eminent
foreign, noticed, iv. 22.
Literature, to arrest its decline the

cause and remedies should be
pointed out, iv. 4; the numbers
who aspire to its honours inju-
rious, 5; its progress towards
maturity how promoted, 5; causes
of the depravation of ancient, 7.
Logicians Refuted, a poem, i. 131.
London affords every kind of com-
pany, ii. 163; contrasted with
Nankin, iii. 9.

London, a poem, its character,
iv. 289.

Longinus, his opinion in regard to
metaphors, ii. 254.
Love, that of the English and Dutch
contrasted, iii. 48; obstacles to,
in different countries, 316.
Lovers, what kind the most danger-
ous, iii. 174.

Luke and George Leck, some account
of, i. 93, note.
Lumpkin, Tony, i. 236; an
improved edition of Humphry
Gubbins, 42.

Luxury spreads a deceitful splendour
over a country, i. 102; aggravates

the miseries of the poor, 103;
attended with some good effects,
iii. 30.

Mac Flecknoe, a satire, its character,
iv. 290.

Macpherson, James, Esq. i. 119.
Mad Dog, elegy on the death of a,
i. 130.

Maffei, his tragedies, iv. 15.
Magazine, Lady's, conducted by
Goldsmith, i. 24.

Magazine, The Infernal, ii. 171.
Magazine, specimen of one in minia-
ture, ii. 170.

Magistrate, a corrupt, a human
hyæna, iii. 233.

Males and females, proportion of,
ii. 211.

Mallet, David, Esq. Bolingbroke
bequeathes him his writings, iv.
252; refuses to suppress the
letters on history, 258.

Man, his rationality disputed, i. 131;

a solecism in nature, ii. 175, iii.
41; his ignorance and need of a
revelation, 62.

Man in Black, in the Citizen of the
World, iii. 34; who the arche-
type of, i. 3.
Mandarines, story of one ostenta-
tious of his jewels, iii. 188.
Mandarines, story of the twelve,
iii. 121.

Mankind have periods of advancing
and retrograding in civilization,
iii. 184; neither their virtues nor
vices without alloy, 195; com-
pared to a ship, 241; high notions
of the dignity of their nature, 318.
Margites of Homer, first regular
plan of comedy, ii. 241.

Marlow, in She Stoops to Conquer,
resembles Lord Hardy in Steele's
Funeral, i. 42.

Marriages, runaway, seldom turn
out well, ii. 293.
Marsyas, fable of, ii. 25.
Massey, his translation of Ovid's
Fasti criticised, ii. 307.
Massillon, his impressive preaching,
ii. 182; specimen of, iv. 153.
Mathematics, Goldsmith's opinion
of, iv. 50.

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iv. 15.

Methodists, Dr Johnson's opinion
of, ii. 184.
Middle order in a state, the most
virtuous, ii. 79; how its influence
may be destroyed, 79; observa-
tions on the pride and luxury of,
iv. 160.

Mills, Edward, Esq. Goldsmith's
letter to, i. 310.

Mind, the good effects of unbending
the, iii. 156.

Mirth, enthusiasts enemies to, iii.
307.

Mischief, the power of doing seldom
commensurate with the desire,
ii. 60.

Misers, that name often misapplied,
iv. 97, 118.

Misery, whence it proceeds, iii. 129;
self created, 263.
Montaigne, not admired in company,
i. 58; remark of his, 315.
Montesquieu, the Citizen of the
World, an imitation of his Lettres
Persanes, i. 63; his Spirit of
Laws, iv. 25.

Moral Philosophers, Society of, ii.
169.

Morals low where there is little
refinement, i. 87.

Mordaunt, Sir Philip, his suicide
blamed, iii. 215.
Mourning, manner of in England
and China, iii. 270.
Multitude, their approbation seldom
well founded, iii. 109.
Music, three principal schools of,
ii. 278.

Muzzy Club, account of, ii. 165.
Myra, sonnet to, i. 139.

Nabis, his instrument of torture,
iv. 289.

Naïveté, what, ii. 222.
National concord, thoughts on, ii.
208.

Natural history, advantages of
studying, iv. 261; notice of the
principal writers in, 261; objects
of, 280; systems of, 281.
Naturalists, their trifling pursuits,
iii. 256.
Nature unjustly charged with par-
tiality to particular ages, iv. 4.
New books, their value compared
with old, iii. 218.
Newmarket, remarks on horse-
racing there, iii. 247.
Newspaper, specimen of a, iii. 17.
Nobility are sure of flattering elegies,
iii. 293.

Nobleman, account of an English,
iii. 91; why courted, 92; dullest
productions of one sure of success,
iii. 166.

Noise in the world, in what way
some make a, ii. 198.
Northumberland, Earl of, offers
Goldsmith his protection, i. 4;
invites him to an interview, 30;
neglects Goldsmith's recommen-
dation in favour of his brother
Henry, 31.

Novels, their bad effects upon youth,
i. 313.

Novelty offensive to critics, iv. 40.
Numbers, the restraint of, advan-
tageous to poetry, iii. 116.

Oglethorpe, General, letter from, on
the defects of hospitals, i. 319.

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. 33.

Peace-makers, a kind of judges in
Holland, their usefulness, iv.
120.
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.

295.

Prison, discipline introduced in a,
ii. 122; contentment in, iii. 78.
Profession, to know one, sufficient,

178.

Promise, sacredness of, ii. 100.
Prosopopæia, its effect in poetry,
ii. 249; examples of, 264.
Providence, in what respects kinder
to poor than rich, ii. 134.
Public, the patron of authors, iii.

243.

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.
309.

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.

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