Thus here and there, for ever up and down, We know what's damn'd genteel, as well as 20 Notes to She Stoops to Conquer 139. To Samuel Johnson, L. L. D. For Johnson's connection with She Stoops to Conquer see 66 Introduction," p. xxiii. 139, 11. Very dangerous, by reason of the temporary popularity of sentimental comedy. 139, 15. Late in the season, when there could be but few representations. The season ended May 31st, before which date the play was acted twelve times. Prologue. Enter Mr. Woodward. Henry Woodward (1717-77) had no part in this piece. (See Dramatis Personæ of the Good Natur'd Man.) 140, 3. 'Tis not alone. Hamlet, Act 1. Sc. 2. 140, 15. Poor Ned, i. e. Edward Shuter (1728-76), who acted Mr. Hardcastle. Both Shuter and Woodward were eminent comic actors. Garrick thought Shuter "the greatest comic genius he had ever seen. "" 141, 25. All . glitters. Dryden's Hind and Panther. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1901, 5 n. gives other sources. 141, 45. The college you. This means that, in this case, the audience stood in place of the College of Physicians. 143. The Mistakes of a Night. For the tentative titles of the play, see "Introduction," p. xxv. 144, 19. Rumbling mansion, probably a misprint for rambling. 144, 24. Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736) was the ally of Marlborough at Blenheim (1704), Oudenarde (1708), and Malplaquet (1709). 144, 28. Old friends. . . old wine. In Bacon's Apothegms, No. 97, this sentiment is attributed to Alonso of Arragon. Several variations of it appear in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1901, 171 n. 144, 34. Darby. . no Joan. Darby and Joan are the types of a contented couple. There is an old song on them in the Gentleman's Magazine for March, 1735 (v. 153). 145, 61. In Mrs. Frizzle's face. Lord Clare's daughter played this trick on Goldsmith himself (Forster's Life, bk. iv. ch. 15). "One begged to be heard while he gave Death and the Lady in high taste; another sung to a plate which he kept trundling on the edges" (Essays, 1765, 25). 147, 100. Spins the pewter platter. 148, 123. The indigent world. There is a similar thought in the Vicar of Wakefield, ch. 1v. 151, 206. Am face? Am I looking my best to day? New English Dictionary compares, Am I in voice? 153, 261. Would it were bed time. 1 Henry IV., Act v. Sc. I. 153, 3. Knock himself down for a song. Call upon himself for a song. 153, 7. Three Pigeons. Goldsmith himself was in the habit of singing this capital song (Birkbeck Hill's Boswell's Johnson, 1887, II. 219). 154, 17. Methodist preachers. Goldsmith, here and elsewhere, shows imperfect sympathy with the followers of Wesley and Whitefield. 155, 38. That's low. See "Introduction," p. xiii. 155, 48. "Water Parted." A song sung by Arbaces in Arne's opera of Artaxerxes, 1762, beginning, "Water parted from the sea May increase the river's tide," etc. 155, 49. The minuet in "Ariadne." Ariadne was an opera by Handel, at the end of the overture to which came a famous minuet. 158, 116. We wanted no ghost. Hamlet, Act 1. Sc. 5. 159, 164. Find out the longitude. This was a popular enquiry in the eighteenth century, eventually solved by John Harrison of Foulby in Yorkshire, who received the reward of £20,000 which, under an act of Queen Anne, Government was empowered to pay to the discoverer. 160, 188. An inn. This was a recollection of an actual in cident in Goldsmith's youth. While travelling to school at Edgeworthstown, he had been hoaxed into mistaking the house of a gentleman at Ardagh for an inn (Forster's Life, bk. 1. 1.) 164, 47. Ould Grouse. This story has never been traced. 165. Enter Servant. Roger apparently from 1. 332, P. 174. 169, 182. Dutchesses of Drury Lane. Women of the town, who often passed themselves off at public places as persons of quality. In the Description of an Author's Bedchamber (Citizen of the World, 1762, xxix. ) Goldsmith speaks of the "drabs of Drury Lane." See also essay on Scotch Marriages, p. 131 of this volume. 170, 212. To besiege Denain. This French town (Dep. du Nord) is chiefly famous in history for the victory of Marshal Villars over the Allies under Eugene (1712). 172, 263. For us that sell ale. This has been explained as meaning "us that give ale for votes." But it also helps the confusion of Hardcastle with a landlord. 172, 272. Heyder Ally, Sultan of Mysore, 1717-82. 172, 272. Ally Cawn, Subah of Bengal. 172, 272. Ally Croaker. A popular Irish song, dating from 1753, a verse of which is quoted in ch. v. of Miss Edgeworth's Belinda. 172, 283. Westminster-hall. Till 1882 the Law Courts met here. 173, 296. The battle of Belgrade (1717). Goldsmith must often have heard the story of this from General Oglethorpe, who had been present. 175, 346. The Corporation of Bedford. It is suggested by a writer in Notes and Queries, May 16, 1903, that the corporation of Bedford, which was unusually large, was, like the Joiners' Company, notorious for its prowess at the table. 175, 370. A shaking pudding. A jelly or whitepot. 175, 371. Tiff-taff-taffety cream. Marlow stammers,— cf. Act II. Sc. 1. Taffety was a dish so called from its suggestion of the glossy silk known as taffeta or taffety. 178, 436. The laws of marriage. This was an oblique reference to the marriage in 1766 of the Duke of Gloucester and Lady Waldegrave, which helped to bring about the Royal Marriage Act of 1772, directed at the Royal Dukes. 181. A bonnet, etc. The importance of this is shown by Miss Hardcastle's comment to Pimple (Act II. ll. 312-15), "He never once looked up during the interview. Indeed, if he had, my bonnet would have kept him from seeing me.' 184, 608. Those . . . their bosoms. Cf. Voltaire's "La pudeur s'est enfuite des cœurs, et s'est refugié sur les lèvres” (Preface to Cantos VI., vII., and VIII. of Byron's Don Juan). 185, 635. A sober, sentimental interview. This is no doubt aimed at the rival school of comedy. In Act II. Marlow finds Miss Hardcastle "sentimental." 186, 661. Ranelagh, etc. Ranelagh Gardens were at Chelsea; St. James's parish was the fashionable quarter; Tower Wharf was in the vulgar City, next the Tower. 187, 668. The Pantheon, etc. The Pantheon was a concert room in Oxford Street; the Grotto Garden, at Clerkenwell; the Borough was in Southwark. There is ironic humour in this mingling of great and small in this and the foregoing note. 187, 672. The "Scandalous Magazine." The Town and Country Magazine at this time published Tête-à-Tête portraits with satirical biographies. Lamb refers to the pictures in his Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading. An 187, 674. Crooked-lane. See note on p. 121 for 12, 93. 187, 681. The "Ladies Memorandum-book." annual pocket-book and diary. 187, 683. A side-box. See note on p. 122 for 24, 413. 187, 686. Inoculation. Inoculation dated from 1721 ; but its introduction was gradual. 190, 750. That Mr. Hastings may see you. Cf. Vicar of Wakefield, ch. xvi. 197, 49. Bully Dawson. tioned in Spectator, No. II. A Whitefriars hector men 201, 176. Table-cut things, i. e. with flat surfaces. 201, 177. Court of King Solomon at a puppetshew. Goldsmith again refers to this Bartholomew Fair exhibition in his Essay on the Coronation (Essays, 1766, 238). 206, 305. The "Beaux' Stratagem." A comedy by |