CONTENTS.

CHAPTER XX.

CHAPTER XXI.

The Great Cham of literature and the King.-Scene at Sir Joshua Reynolds's-

Goldsmith accused of jealousy.-Negotiations with Garrick.-The author

and the actor-their correspondence,

195

CHAPTER XXII.

More hack authorship.-Tom Davies and the Roman History.-Canonbury

Castle. Political authorship.-Pecuniary temptation.-Death of Newbery

the elder,
202

CHAPTER XXIII.

Theatrical manoeuvering.-The comedy of " False Delicacy."-First perform-

ance of "The Good-natured Man."-Conduct of Johnson.-Conduct of the

author.-Intermeddling of the press,

206

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CHAPTER XXIV.

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Burning the candle at both ends.-Fine apartments.-Fine furniture.—Fine

clothes.-Fine acquaintances.-Shoemaker's holiday and jolly pigeon asso-

ciates.-Peter Barlow, Glover, and the Hampstead hoax.-Poor friends

among great acquaintances,

212

Reduced again to book-building.—Rural retreat at Shoemaker's Paradise.—

Death of Henry Goldsmith-tributes to his memory in the Deserted Vil-

lage,

218

CHAPTER XXV.

Dinner at Bickerstaff's.- Hiffernan and his impecuniosity.- Kenrick's epi-

gram.-- Johnson's consolation.- Goldsmith's toilet.-The bloom-colored

coat.-New acquaintances.-The Hornecks.-A touch of poetry and pas-

sion.-The Jessamy Bride,

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CHAPTER XXVI.

Goldsmith in the Temple.-Judge Day and Grattan.-Labor and dissipation.—

Publication of the Roman History.-Opinions of it.-History of Animated

Nature.-Temple rookery.-Anecdotes of a spider,

229

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CHAPTER XXVII.

Honors at the Royal Academy.- Letter to his brother Maurice. - Family

fortunes.-Jane Contarine and the miniature.-Portraits and engrav-

ings. School associations. -Johnson and Goldsmith in Westminster

Abbey,

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Publication of the Deserted Village-notices and illustrations of it,

CHAPTER XXIX.

The poet among the ladies-description of his person and manners.-Ex-

pedition to Paris with the Horneck family.-The traveller of twenty and

the traveller of forty.- Hickey, the special attorney.—An unlucky ex-

ploit,

253

CHAPTER XXX.

238

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- Biography of Parnell. Agreement with

Death of Goldsmith's mother.

Davies for the History of Rome.-Life of Bolingbroke.-The haunch of ven-

ison,

264

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER XXXI.

Dinner at the Royal Academy.-The Rowley controversy.-Horace Walpole's

conduct to Chatterton.-Johnson at Redcliffe Church.-Goldsmith's History

of England.-Davies's criticism.-Letter to Bennet Langton,

269

CHAPTER XXXIII.

CHAPTER XXXII.

Marriage of Little Comedy.-Goldsmith at Barton.-Practical jokes at

the expense of his toilet.-Amusements at Barton.-Aquatic misadven-

ture,

275

CHAPTER XXXIV.

Dinner at General Oglethorpe's.-Anecdotes of the general.-Dispute about

duelling.-Ghost stories,

279

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CHAPTER XXXVI.

Mr. Joseph Cradock.-An author's confidings.-An amanuensis.-Life at Edge-

ware.-Goldsmith conjuring.-George Colman.-The Fantoccini, . 284

CHAPTER XXXV.

Broken health.-Dissipation and debts.-The Irish Widow.-Practical jokes.-

Scrub.-A misquoted pun.-Malagrida.-Goldsmith proved to be a fool.—

Distressed ballad-singers.-The poet at Ranelagh,

293

Invitation to Christmas.--The spring-velvet coat.-The haymaking wig.-

The mischances of loo.-The fair culprit.-A dance with the Jessamy

Bride,

305

CHAPTER XXXVII.

Theatrical delays.-Negotiations with Colman.-Letter to Garrick.-Croaking

of the manager.-Naming of the play.-She Stoops to Conquer.-Foote's

Primitive Puppet Show, Piety on Pattens.-First performance of the

comedy.—Agitation of the author.-Success.-Colman squibbed out of

309

town.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

A newspaper attack.-The Evans affray.-Johnson's comment,

CHAPTER XXXIX.

Boswell in Holy-Week.-Dinner at Oglethorpe's.-Dinner at Paoli's.-The

policy of truth.—Goldsmith affects independence of royalty.—Paoli's com-

pliment.-Johnson's eulogium on the fiddle.-Question about suicide.—

Boswell's subserviency,

327

his apology.

visit,

CHAPTER XL.

Changes in the Literary Club.-Johnson's objection to Garrick.-Election of

Boswell,

337

CHAPTER XLI.

Dinner at Dilly's. - Conversations on natural history. Intermeddling of

Boswell. Dispute about toleration.- Johnson's rebuff to Goldsmith-

Man-worship.- Doctors Major and Minor.-A farewell

341

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CHAPTER XLII.

Project of a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.-Disappointment.—Negligent

authorship.-Application for a pension.-Beattie's Essay on Truth.-Public

adulation.-A high-minded rebuke,

347

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER XLIII.

Toil without hope.-The Poet in the green-room-in the flower garden-

at Vauxhall-dissipation without gayety.-Cradock in town-friendly

sympathy-a parting scene-an invitation to pleasure,

CHAPTER XLIV.

CHAPTER XLV.

A return to drudgery-forced gayety-retreat to the country. The poem

of Retaliation.-Portrait of Garrick—of Goldsmith—of Reynolds.—Illness

of the poet-his death.-Grief of his friends.-A last word respecting the

Jessamy Bride,

360

The funeral.—The monument.-The epitaph.-Concluding reflections,

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