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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 XXI.
More hack authorship.-Tom Davies and the Roman History.-Canonbury
Castle.-Political authorship.-Pecuniary temptation.-Death of Newbery
the elder,
202
CHAPTER XXII.
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
CHAPTER XXIII.
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
CHAPTER XXIV.
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,
222
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
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,
-
238
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Publication of the Deserted Village-notices and illustrations of it,
CHAPTER XXIX.
245
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.
Death of Goldsmith's mother. Biography of Parnell. — Agreement with
Davies for the History of Rome.-Life of Bolingbroke.-The haunch of ven-
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 XXXII.
Marriage of Little Comedy.-Goldsmith at Barton.-Practical jokes at
the expense of his toilet.-Amusements at Barton.-Aquatic misadven-
ture,
275
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Dinner at General Oglethorpe's.-Anecdotes of the general.-Dispute about
duelling.-Ghost stories,
279
CHAPTER XXXIV.
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
CHAPTER XXXVI.
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
town.
309
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
A newspaper attack.-The Evans affray.-Johnson's comment,
CHAPTER XXXIX.
321
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
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-
his apology.— Man-worship.- Doctors Major and Minor.— A farewell
visit,
341
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
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,
353
CHAPTER XLIV.
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
CHAPTER XLV.
The funeral.—The monument.-The epitaph.-Concluding reflections, 371