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ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by
WASHINGTON IRVING,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern Distric of New-York.
JOHN F. TROW,
Printer and Stereotyper 49 Ann-street, NY
Pred Newton Scatt Biquint
1-28-1928
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
Birth and parentage.-Characteristics of the Goldsmith race.--Poetical birth-
place. Goblin house.-Scenes of boyhood-Lissoy.--Picture of a country
parson.-Goldsmith's schoolmistress.-Byrne, the village schoolmaster.—
Goldsmith's hornpipe and epigram --Uncle Contarine-School studies and
school sports.-Mistakes of a night,
17
CHAPTER II.
Improvident marriages in the Goldsmith family.-Goldsmith at the university.-
Situation of a sizer.-Tyranny of Wilder, the tutor.-Pecuniary straits.—
Street ballads.College riot.-Gallows Walsh.-College prize.--A dance
interrupted,
. 30
CHAPTER III.
Goldsmith rejected by the bishop.-Second sally to see the world.-Takes
passage for America.-Ship sails without him.--Return on Fiddle-back.-
A hospitable friend.--The counsellor,
45
CHAPTER IV.
Sallies forth as a law student.--Stumbles at the outset.--Cousin Jane and the
valentine.-A family oracle.--Sallies forth as a student of medicine.-
Hocus-pocus of a boarding-house-Transformations of a leg of mutton.-
The mock ghost.--Sketches of Scotland.-Trials of Toryism.-A poet's
purse for a Continental tour,
53
CHAPTER V.
The agreeable fellow-passengers.-Risks from friends picked up by the way-
side.--Sketches of Holland and the Dutch.-Shifts while a poor student at
Leyden.—The tulip speculation.--The provident flute.--Sojourn at Paris.—
Sketch of Voltaire.--Travelling shifts of a philosophic vagabond,
. 66
CHAPTER VI.
Landing in England. Shifts of a man without money.-The pestle and
mortar.-Theatricals in a barn.-Launch upon London.-A city night
scene. Struggles with penury.-- Miseries of a tutor.-A doctor in the
suburb.-Poor practice and second-hand finery.-A tragedy in embryo.---
Project of the written mountains,
77
CHAPTER VII.
Life of a pedagogue.-Kindness to schoolboys-pertness in return.-Expensive
charities. The Griffiths and the "Monthly Review."-Toils of a literary
hack.-Rupture with the Griffiths,
84
CHAPTER VIII.
Newbery, of picture-book memory.-How to keep up appearances.-Miseries
of authorship.-A poor relation.-Letter to Hodson,
89
CHAPTER IX.
Hackney authorship-Thoughts of literary suicide.-Return to Peckham.—
Oriental projects.—Literary enterprise to raise funds.-Letter to Edward
Wells-to Robert Bryanton.-Death of uncle Contarine.-Letter to cousin
Jane,
. 97
Oriental appointment—and disappointment.-Examination at the College of
Surgeons. How to procure a suit of clothes.-Fresh disappointment.—A
tale of distress.-The suit of clothes in pawn.-Punishment for doing an
act of charity.-Gayeties of Green-Arbor Court.-Letter to his brother.-
Life of Voltaire.-Scroggins, an attempt at mock heroic poetry, 107
CHAPTER XI.
Publication of "The Inquiry."-Attacked by Griffiths' Review.-Kenrick, the
literary Ishmaelite.-Periodical literature.-Goldsmith's essays.-Garrick
as a manager.-Smollett and his schemes.-Change of lodgings.-The
Robin Hood club,
124
CHAPTER XII.
New lodgings.-Visits of ceremony.-Hangers-on.-Pilkington and the white
mouse. Introduction to Dr. Johnson.-Davies and his bookshop.-Pretty
Mrs. Davies.-Foote and his projects-Criticism of the cudgel,
132
CHAPTER XIII.
Oriental projects.-Literary jobs.-The Cherokee chiefs.-Merry Islington
and the White Conduit House.-Letters on the History of England.-
James Boswell.-Dinner of Davies.-Anecdotes of Johnson and Gold-
smith,
139
AAPPTER XIV.
Hogarth a visitor at Islingto is character.-Street studies.-Sympathics
between authors and paints -Sir Joshua Reynolds-his character-his
dinners.-The Literary Club. -its.members.-Johnson's revels with Lanky
and Beau.-Goldsmith at the lub,
-t
14
CHAPTER XV.
Johnson a monitor to Goldsmith-finds him in distress with his landlady—
relieved by the Vicar of Wakefield.-The oratorio.-Poem of the Travel-
ler. The poet and his dog.-Success of the poem.-Astonishment of the
club. Observations on the poem,
158
CHAPTER XVI.
New lodgings.-Johnson's compliment.-A titled patron.- The poet at
Northumberland House.-His independence of the great.-The Countess
of Northumberland.-Edwin and Angelina.-Gosfield and Lord Clare.—
Publication of Essays. Evils of a rising reputation. — Hangers-on.—
Job writing.-Goody Two-shoes.-A medical campaign.—Mrs. Sidebo-
tham, 165
CHAPTER XVII.
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Publication of the Vicar of Wakefield-- opinions concerning it of Dr.
Johnson-of Rogers the poet-of Goethe-its merits.- Exquisite ex-
tract. Attack by Kenrick.-Reply.-Book-building.-Project of a com-
edy,
CHAPTER XVIII.
174
Social condition of Goldsmith-his colloquial contests with Johnson.--Anec-
dotes and illustrations,
183
Social resorts.-The shilling whist club.-A pra,cal joke.-The Wednesday
club.-The 'tun of man.'-The pig butch-Tom King-Hugh Kelly.-
Glover and his characteristics,
190