371; the "Jessamy Bride" insulted
by Kenrick, 386; her brother, or Cap-
tain Higgins, accompanies Goldsmith to
chastise him, 387; their brother's un-
fortunate marriage, 460; Goldsmith's
coffin opened at the sister's request to
obtain a lock of his hair, 467. See
GWYN.

Hospital mate, Goldsmith resolves to be

one, i. 165; examined and rejected, 166.
Hughes, Rev. Patrick, master of Edge-

worthstown school, i. 19; his special
kindness to Goldsmith, 20.

Hume, David, opinion of the tragedy of
Douglas, i. 107, 108; favourable expe-
rience of the persecution of the presbytery,
108; effects of it in the sale of his history,
ib; brings the Tudor volumes of his History
to London, 111; opinion of Burke's
Treatise on the Sublime, ib; impatience
at Smollett's History, 114; view of lite-
rature in England and France, 198;
Goldsmith promises him fame, 228;
secretary to the embassy at Paris, 426;
his immense popularity there, ib; descrip-
tion of him in Madame d'Epinay's letters,
427 his feeling towards Rousseau,
427; offers him a home in England, ib;
becomes under-secretary to Marshal Con-
way, ii. 39; his detestation of the English
world of letters, 44; declines an intro-
duction to Percy, ib; attacked by his
protégé Rousseau, 45; caricatured in
company with Rousseau, ib. n; letter
to the Countess de Boufflers, respecting
Lord Chatham, 86; his charge against
ministers for indifference to literature, 95;
his pension increased, 149; applies him-
self to the continuation of his English
History, 149; impression of the character
of Boswell, 151; a believer in the
authenticity of Ossian, 280; recantation
of his error, ib.

I.

IMITATION of Johnson, alleged against Gold-
smith, i. 429; against many others, ib;
discussed, ib; a real example of, ii. 255,
256.

Inchbald, Mrs, her opinion of the characters
in the Good Natured Man, ii. 59.
Inny river, i. 7; scene of Goldsmith's early
sports and pleasures, 39.

Introduction to Languages, by Anselm
Bayly, i. 165; reviewed by Goldsmith,
ib.

Ireland, Goldsmith's opinion of it in brief,

J.

JACK's Tavern, Soho, tête-a-tête suppers of
Johnson and Goldsmith, ii. 357.
Jacob, Mr, chemist, on Fish-street-hill, i.
78; employs Goldsmith out of compas-
sion as an assistant, ib; supplies further
assistance, 79.

Jeffreys, Mr, translates Vida's Game of
Chess, ii. 267; submits it for the opinion
of Pope, ib; comparison between his
translation and that of Goldsmith, 267,
268.

Jemima and Louisa, type of the fashionable
novel of Goldsmith's day, i. 188; Gold-
smith's acoount of it, 189.

Jenkinson, Charles, (first Lord Liverpool, )
lord of the Treasury, ii. 88; member of
the king's private junto, 89; started in
his career as writer in the Monthly
Review, ib; rats from Whiggism to
Toryism, ib; becomes private secretary
to Lord Bute, ib; his private character
and principles, 90.

Jerrold, Douglas, his comedy of the King of

Bath, i. 301; suggested by Goldsmith's
Life of Beau Nash, ib.

Johnson, Samuel, dictum in the Life of
Savage on the effects of the pursuit of
literature on literary men, i. 1; comment,
2; character of Goldsmith, 4, 10;
opinion on the foundation of sizarships,
24; his character at Oxford, 27; opinion
of cheerfulness, as an art, 43; sterling
independence of his nature, 93, 95, 96;
Dictionary finished, ib; writes paragraphs
for the London Chronicle, at a guinea,
a-piece ib; contributes to the Universal
Review, 97; opinion of Scotch claret,
107; on the tragedy of Douglas, 109;
his opinion of interlopers in literature,
bishops, judges, and physicians, 162;
on the value of vigour, 167; objections to

his own style, 195; reply on the
failure of Irene, 207; night-wanderings
with Savage, 215; repays bookseller
Osborne's insults, 215; letter to Lord
Chesterfield, 216; letter to Thomas
Warton, on the near completion of his
Dictionary, ib; his moderate notions
of expenditure, 217; Dr. Burney's
visit to him in Gough Square, 218;
removes to a poorer lodging, ib; con-
tributes to the Tatler, ib; begins to
be recognised as intellectual chief, ib;
his addiction to the booksellers, 220;
pays the expenses of his mother's funeral
with the manuscript of Rasselas, ib;
his reasons for not printing a list of
subscribers, ib; first mentioned pub-
licly by Goldsmith, 228; opinion of
Garrick, 243; receives him as a pupil,
245; not possessor of a watch till sixty
years of age, 286; his mode of writing
prefaces, 293; visit to Goldsmith at
Wine Office-court, 294; accompanied by
Percy, 295; his dress and appearance,
296; reasons alleged for his particularity,
ib; a supper without a Boswell, ib;
his idleness and independence, 297;
opinion of the Cock Lane Ghost, 298;
on great debts and small ones, 300;
purchases the Life of Beau Nash, 304;
Wedderburne recommends him for a
pension, ib; Arthur Murphy visits him
in Inner Temple Lane, ib; dinner at
the Mitre, 305; waits upon Lord Bute,
ib; takes Davies's part against Garrick,
306; his admiration of pretty Mrs.
Davies, ib; intimacy with Davies, the
bookseller, 307; his opinion as to "
feeling people, 308; his friendship
for Goldsmith, 309; quarrel with Foote,
ib; threatens him with a cudgelling,
ib; opinion of him, ib; deficiency as an
orator, 311; causes of it, ib; what
he might have done had his pension been
granted earlier, 314; opinion of Gold-
smith's fitness for travel, ib; his com-
parison of the entrance into literature,
315; Burton in Anatomie of Melan-
choly had previously used it, ib;
contributes to the Poetical Calendar,
316; on old Sheridan's dulness, 317;
criticism of Gray in Dodsley's Collec-
tion, 317; his friendship for Robert
Levett, 320; character of Hawkins,
338; declares Sir John Hawkins to be

an

very

"unclubbable man," ib; his powers
of conversation, 343; contrast and dis-
cussions with Burke, 344, 345; frolic
with Langton and Beauclerc, 346; first

introduction to Boswell at Tom Davies's,
353; interview described, 354; his
antipathy to Scotland, ib; his rebuff to
Boswell's soft approach, ib; arrogates
Garrick to himself as exclusive property,
ib; friendship commenced, ib; suppers
at the Mitre, 355; declares his liking
for Boswell, ib; defends Goldsmith,
356; suppers at the Turk's Head, ib;
his kindness to the poor woman of the
town, ib; on vice and virtue, 356;
accompanies Boswell on his way to
Utrecht, 357; a roar at the Mitre, 358;
his pensioners, 359; his treatment of
the poor, and of beggars, 359, 360;
fondness for tea, ib; levees in Inner
Temple Lane, 361; admirable saying
to Mrs. Piozzi, ib; another, 383;
receives visit from the Countess de
Boufflers, 362; visit to Goldsmith in his
chambers, 363; his kindness to poor
Kit Smart, 367; releases him from the
madhouse, 368; his pious view of Smart's
infirmities, ib; his indifference to the
scheme of Percy's Reliques, 380; call
for his edition of Shakspeare, 381; visit
to Bennet Langton in Lincolnshire, ib;
to Easton Mauduit vicarage, ib; forms
acquaintance with the Thrales, ib;
captivated by Mrs. Thrale, 382; be-
comes an intimate of the family, 383;
its effects in diverting his melancholy, ib;
his sympathies with Grub-street miseries,
ib; summoned to a distressed author
(Goldsmith) 383, 384; rescues him from
arrest and sells the Vicar of Wakefield
for 601, 384; opinion of Goldsmith's
novel and poem, and of the conduct of
the bookseller, 386; on the price given
for the Vicar, 387; his commendations of
the Traveller, ib; prefers it to the Vicar
of Wakefield, ib; corrects the proof-
sheets, ib.; prepares notice of it in the
Critical Review, ib; pronounces it the
finest poem since the death of Pope, 391;
corrects Goldsmith as to the meaning of
his own verse, 394; defends Goldsmith
from the charge of imitating him, 396;
writes for Smart in the Universal Visitor,
408; discovers his astounding agreement
with Gardener, ib; discontinues his
services, ib; refuses Garrick admis-
sion to the literary club, 420; resists
the solicitations of Reynolds, Thrale, and
Hawkins, ib; brings out his edition of
Shakspeare, 425; receives his Doctor's
degree from the University of Dublin,
ib;
title not acknowledged, ib ;
diploma from Oxford on nomination of

Lord North, ib; still calls himself plain
Mister, 425; takes a house in a court
off Fleet-street, 426; receives Miss
Williams and Robert Levett, ib; his
opinion of M. de Buffon, 427; light
in which he regarded Voltaire, ib; his
careless treatment of books, 430; quarrel
with Garrick, ib; charges him with
liking the players' text better than the
author's, 431; solicits his suffrage in
favour of his edition of Shakspere, ib;
exerted against him, 432; charged by
Garrick with deficiency of sense of high
genius, ib; thus becomes a public theme
against him, ib; gloom and suffering
gather round the great moralist, 433;
excuses himself for writing little in later
life, ib; noble remark, ib; his dislike
of the Rockingham party, 437; prepared
for Burke's success, ib; regrets the
absence of Burke from the club, ib;
opinion of Fielding, ii. 18; estimate
of the Vicar of Wakefield, ib; be-
comes subject to fits of morbid melan-
choly, 23; carried off by the Thrales,
24; his services in calling up another
generation of writers, 41; the club again
united, 48; interview with the king,
ib; details the conversation at Rey-
nolds's, 50; opinions on the question of
patronage, 53; his entry with Garrick
into London, 54; character of Garrick,
55; desire of superior minds to relax
with inferior, 76; uneasy about his
pension, 94; exercises his wit against
Goldsmith, 103; attends the rehearsal
of the Good Natured Man, 119; his
kindness to Goldsmith, 123; opinions of
the comedies of the Good Natured Man
and False Delicacy, 124; habit of abbre-
viating his friends' names, 127; his
views upon the question of trade, 139;
visit to Oxford, 151; followed by Bos-
well there, ib; return to London, ib;
dinners at Crown and Anchor,
tossing and goring several persons, 152;
definition of the character of Kenrick,
161; noble saying as to Bickerstaff, ib;
opinion as to writing an author down,
162; treatment of attacks upon himself,
A.N. xxxvii ; point of agreement be-
tween him and General Oglethorpe, 165;
declines reading Hume on account of his
infidelity, 177; opinion of Garrick's
prologues and epilogues, 186; on wait-
ing for a single guest at dinner, 191;
recitation of the Dunciad, 192; at-
tacks on Boswell, 194; habit of over-
charging the characteristics of his friends,

VOL. II.

b;

204; character of Reynolds, 205, 207,
208; value of his maxims for the con-
duct of life, 210; specimens of his
manly wisdom, 210, 211; affecting and
noble remark, ib; on Goldsmith's con-
versation, 212, 216, 217; inconsistency
of his dicta with respect to his friends,
216; dislike of Mason, yet enjoyment of
the Heroic Epistle, 221; Shebbeare's
pension, 222; his next neighbour in the
pension list, ib; plunges into party-war
with the False Alarm, 223; attacked
in the House of Commons, ib; defended
by Fitzherbert, ib; esteems the Deser-
ted Village inferior to the Traveller,
229; noble charity to a wretched girl,
234; his summary of Goldsmith's style
in prose, 254; why great lords and
ladies did not like his company, 259;
his opinion on Chatterton, 278; laughs
like a rhinoceros, 282, 287; his
love of a laugh, A. N. xxxviii; opinion
as to places of public amusement, 287;
opinion upon card-playing, 290, and
upon gambling, ib; attacked in the
House as a paid pensioner, 309; visit
to Lord North on the Falkland Islands
pamphlet, ib; explains Goldsmith's
fame to Boswell, 328; inflicts hor-
rible shocks on his biographer, 329; put
to the torture about squeezed oranges,
ib; his opinion of the value of a literary
life, 331; opinion about anecdotes,
332; worsted in argument by Gold-
smith, 333; revenges himself, ib; his
violence in retort, 334; his belief in
ghosts, 335; declaration that Goldsmith
deserved a place in Westminster Abbey,
341; on changes in manners and
social life, 342; antipathy to Scot-
land, 345; statement of the difference
between orthoepists, 354; admirable say-
ing on Mrs. Montague, 356; interferes
with Colman concerning Goldsmith's
comedy, 367; opinion of She Stoops
to Conquer, 367, 368; presides at the
tavern dinner the night of the perform-
ance of She Stoops to Conquer, 375;
description of the great end of comedy,
381; character of Goldsmith's defence,
390; deficiency in stage-criticism, 401;
introduction of Boswell to the club,
411; argument on toleration with Top-
lady and Dr. Mayo, 414; betrayed into
a pun, 415; how to treat an adversary,
418; his talk about Goldsmith's envy,
420; his confession as to his own, 421;
opinion as to Goldsmith's being his bio-
grapher, 422; character of himself, ib;

M M

affection for Beauclerc and Langton, 423;
summary of Goldsmith's character, 437;
admirable remark on dress, ib; meets
a schoolfellow after forty-nine years, 441;
silent rebuke to Goldsmith for his extra-
vagance, 458; writes the epitaph for
Goldsmith's monument, 470; differences
of opinion concerning it in the club, 471;
declines to profane the walls of West-
minster Abbey with an English inscrip-
tion, 472; the epitaph, ib.

Johnson, Mr, husband of Jane Goldsmith,
i. 9.

Johnson, Mrs (Jane Goldsmith), writes
about an unappropriated legacy of uncle
Contarine's, ii. 196; Goldsmith's kind de-
sires in her favour, 197; her condition
after Goldsmith's death, 493.
Jones, the Oriental scholar, correspondence
with the Bishop of St. Asaph, i. 335,
336; elected member of the club, ii.
407.

Jones, Oliver, Master of Elphin school, i. 8;
Charles Goldsmith a pupil, b; marriage
of his daughter Anne, ib.
Jones, Mr, East India director, i. 138;
obtains Goldsmith a medical appoint-
ment at Coromandel, 153.

Jones, Mr. Griffith, editor of the Public
Ledger, i. 271; writer of children's books
for Newbery, ib.

Junius, first appearance of Letters (under

different signatures) in the Public Ad-
vertiser, ii. 91, 155; their character and
style, ib; ferocious attacks on ministers,
93; proves a terrible assailant, 155; takes
the signature of Junius, 183; the nature
and power of his letters described, ib;
the increased audacity of his libels, 225;
their victory over the law, ib; attack
upon Garrick, 236; the authorship
charged on Burke, 302; why it could
not be, 303. See FRANCIS.
Jura, Mont, Goldsmith flushes woodcocks on
its summit, i. 70.

K.

KAUFFMAN, Angelica, the artist, ii. 175;
patronised by Reynolds, ib; her portrait
of him, b; her unfortunate marriage,
ib; made member of the Royal Academy,
176.

Kearney, Dr, associate of Goldsmith in the
university, i. 27; subsequently fellow, ib.
Kelly, Mr. Cornelius, the " wag of Ardagh,'

i. 21; plays trick on Goldsmith in
sending him to Squire Featherstone's, ib;

origin of the scene in She Stoops to
Conquer, ib.

Kelly, Hugh, member of the Wednesday-
club, ii. 77; great favourite with Mr.
Ballantyne, 78; staymaker's apprentice
in Dublin, 79; resumes the employment
in London, from starvation, ib; becomes
writer to an attorney, ib; employed by
Newbery on the Public Ledger, ib; be-
comes stage critic, ib; caricatures
Churchill's style in his Thespis, ib; recom-
mends himself to the notice of Garrick,
ib; how Johnson treated him, 80;
taken up by Garrick in rivalry to Gold-
smith, 115; a master of the sentimental
school, 116; writes the comedy of False
Delicacy, 118; prologue and epilogue
written by Garrick, ib; its singular
success, ib; receives public breakfast
at the Chapter coffee-house, 119; trans-
lated into German and Portuguese, ib;
placed on the French stage by a
translation of Madame Riccoboni's, ib;
withdrawal from the Wednesday-club,
132;
differences between him and
Goldsmith, 133; becomes editor of the
Public Ledger, ib; moves into cham-
bers in the Temple, ib; dissuades Gold-
smith from marrying his sister-in-law,
ib; meeting in the Covent-Garden green-
room, ib; quarrel become irreconcileable,
134; author of the novel of Louisa Mild-
may, ib; not justified in the tone he
assumed, ib; an imitator of Goldsmith's
follies, ib; struggling for a pension,
241; gratitude to Garrick, 242; sudden
close of his dramatic career, 290;
becomes a ministerial hack, ib; his
comedy, A Word to the Wise, produced
by Garrick, ib; damned for his support
of the ministry, ib; failure of a second
play at Covent-Garden, 291; his cha-
racter as given by Davies, ib; School
for Wives, 441; temporary success, ib;
foisted on the public as the production of
Major Addington, 443; his grief at
Goldsmith's funeral, 469.

Kenrick, reviews Goldsmith's Enquiry in
the Monthly Review, i. 196; spirit
of the review, ib; personality of its
allusions, 197; makes apology for them,
275; assails Johnson's edition of
Shakspeare, i. 425; writes the play of
Falstaff's Wedding, 432; acted by Gar-
rick at Drury Lane, ib; his gross attack
upon Garrick, ii. 160; lectures at the Devil
tavern on perpetual motion, 161; Gold-
smith's evil genius, 162; writes for the
Gentleman's Journal, ib; the Ishmael

of criticism, ib; attacks the Traveller,
ib; libel on Goldsmith, 284; shrinks
from the consequences, 285; attacks
Goldsmith in the London Packet, 384;
denies the authorship of the libel, 388.
Kippis, Dr, contributor to the Monthly
Review, i. 97, 128; anecdotes of Golds-
smith's oratory, 311; his Biographia
Britannica, ii. 458; failure of the
speculation, ib.

L.

Lady's Magazine, established by Mr.
Wilkie, i. 227; contributed to by Gold-
smith, ib; who edits it, 292; and raises
its circulation to 3300, ib.

Laing, Mr. David, signet library, Edin-
burgh, communicates to the author Gold-
smith's tailor's bill, i. 53.

Lamb, Charles, definition of the dis-
tinction between old and modern come-
dians, i. 223; taught his alphabet
by a woman who had known Goldsmith,
ii. 32; race of Temple benchers in his
time, 109.

Langhorne, contributor to the Monthly
Review, i. 97; translation of Bion's
Elegy of Adonis, 183; reviewed by
Goldsmith, ib.

Langton, Bennet, a frequenter of Davies's in
Russell-street, i. 307; original member
of the literary club, 333; his disposi-
tion and character 345; admiration of|
the Rambler, ib; induces him, when
only 18, to seek Johnson, ib; John-
son's affection for him, ib; his here-
ditary descent, 346; enters Trinity
College, Oxford, ib; Johnson visits him
there, ib; becomes acquainted with
Topham Beauclerc, grandson of Duke of
St. Albans, ib; their night frolic with
Johnson, ib; his taste for "unidea'd.
girls," 347; his scholarship and tolerance
of character, ib; a good reader of poetry,
348; supplies the name "Auburn" for
Goldsmith's poem, ii. 235; marriage
with one of the countess dowagers of
Rothes, 315; letter from Goldsmith,
316; Johnson's affection for him, 423.
Lawder, Mr, married to Jane Contarine,

i. 25; letter from Goldsmith to Mrs.
Lawder, 150; his complaint of her hus-
band's indifference, 173.

Lee, Colonel, his account to the Prince of
Poland of the amazing powers of Burke,
ii. 39; general in the American army
of Independence, ib.

Le Grout, the miniature painter, i. 244;
portrait of Garrick's father, ib; Gar-
rick's humour in describing it, ib.
Lennox, Mrs, author of the Female Quixote,
ii. 170; supposed to have been assisted
by Johnson in a work called Shakspeare
Illustrated, ib; writes the play of the
Sister, ib; produced by Colman at
Covent Garden, ib; its ill-success, ib;
supplies characters to Burgoyne for the
Heiress, 171; epilogue written for her
by Goldsmith, ib.

Lessingham, Mrs, actress, ii. 114; begins
life in Derrick's garret, ib.

Letters, partially quoted or given in full
(Vol. I.); Goethe to Zelter, i. 2; Malone
to Percy, 14; Anderson to Percy, ib;
Gray to West, 32; Goldsmith to Hod-
son, 39; to his mother, 45 (and 443) ;
to Bryanton, 50 (and 446); to Uncle
Contarine, 51 (and 449); to the same,
52 (and 448); to the same, 56 (and
450); Burke to Matthew Smith, 93;
letter of Walpole's, 96; Bowyer to Jack-
son, ib; letters of Hume's, 110; to
Adam Smith, 111; to Robertson, ib;
to Millar, 114; Gray to Wharton, 119,
121; Wharton to Mason, 120; letters
of Walpole's, ib; to Montague, 121;
Gray to Hurd, 124; Campbell to Percy,
126; Goldsmith to Hodson, 131; Percy
to Grainger, 141; Goldsmith to Mills,
142; to Bryanton, 145; to Mrs. Law-
der, 150; to Hodson, 154; to Griffiths,
169; Grainger to Percy, 171; Gold-
smith to his brother Henry, 173; John-
son to Boswell, 180; Campbell to Percy,
181; Steevens to Percy, 190; letter of
Walpole's, 198; of Hume's, ib; John-
son to Chesterfield, 216; to Thomas
Warton, ib; Smollett to Wilkes,
218; Grainger to Percy, 219; Ralph to
Garrick, 234; letter of Walpole's, 235;
of Gray's, ib; Garrick to his father,
242; same to same, 243; Walpole to
Mann, 247 (bis); Swynfen to Peter Gar-
rick, 250; Garrick to his brother, 251;
same to same, 253; letter of Peter Fer-
mignac's, 253; of Walpole's, 254; Gray
to Chute, 255; Garrick to his brother,
256; same to same, 257; letter of Wal-
pole's, 259; Garrick to his brother, 260;
same to same, 262; Horace Walpole to
Bentley, 262; letter of Shenstone's,
273; letter of Walpole's, 281; another,
282; Gray to Wharton, 282; Campbell
to Percy, 296 (three letters); Milton to
Gill, 297; Goldsmith to Newbery, 299
(two letters); letter of Johnson's, 300;