*

A few

count of the,' 1759, ii. 417. See
also Italy, Academies of.
Academies (of Science) in London
and Paris, v. 148.

Academy, Royal, G.'s appoint-
ment as Professor at, i. 27, 456;
Johnson's appointment, i. 456 n.
See also Royal Academy.
Accidents, i. 223, iii. 445.
Accomplishments of the Vicar's
daughters, i. 114.

Ace of Hearts, game, iv. 79.
Achilles, iv. 487.

Acis and Galatea, Ovid's, i. 98.
Acquaintances, iii. 95.
Acrostic, warfare by, iii. 406.
Acting, i. 154, 167; the tradi-
tional shrugs in, &c., i. 167;
making a deal of a character, i.
295; how to please the public,
ib.; deportment in, i. 440,
Acton, Wickliffite, i. 283.
Actor, the career of one checked,
i. 299; the Harlequin who
would be an, ii. 115.

Actors, &c., iii. 172, 197, 294; in

China, iii. 2 n.; English and
foreign, ii. 309; their luxurious-
ness, iii. 518; and plays, iii.
517; early Roman, i. 347; styled
vagabonds, ii. 413.

Actresses, and audiences; ii. 339;
beauty in, ii. 312; English, ii.

338.

Eschylus, i. 348, iv. 316.
'Esop's Fables' (Newbery), v.
356 n.

Æsop's stag, ii. 116, l. 27.
Ethiop: See Ethiop.

Adam, speculations on, v. 132.
'Adamus Exul,' Grotius', and Mil-
ton's Paradise Lost,' ii. 55 n.
Adaptation by Goldsmith, case of,

ii. 438; his method of, v. 152.
Addison, ii. 389, ii. 445, ii. 449, ii.
450, iv. 160, iv. 173, (?) iv. 176,
iv. 367, 418, iv. 420, v. 345; his
death, iv. 367; quoted, iv., 165;
failed in conversation, i. 46; on
the French, ii. 436; on Vauxhall,
iii. 268 n.; on wit, ii. 357; his

Cato,' i. 402 n.; on the chastity
of birds, v. 232; iv. 367; his
essays, i. 52; his Hymn, i. 358;
his Latin lines on birds, ii. 135;
his Letter from Italy, v. 156;
his political thinking," ib.;
and Bolingbroke, iv. 191; Den-
nis and, i. 402 n; and Parnell,
iv. 177; and Steele and Swift,
v. 345.

'Addresses to Royalty, On the Su-
perabundance of,' i. 304.
Admiration, the glare of, iii. 490;
inducements to, iii. 378; mutual,
iii. 407, iii. 281, iv. 406; and
approbation, ii. 364.

Admirer, a professed,' of women,
iv. 56; a sincere, i. 405.
Admirers, circles of, iii. 279.
Admonition, fire and brimstone,
iv. 129.

'Adonis, Death of,' Langhorne's,
iv. 338.

Adrastus and Atalanta, iv. 430.
Adulation of kings, rebuke to, iii.
436.

Adultery, punishments for, iii. 70.
Adversity, the touchstone of friend-

ship, v. 402; the school of, iii.
215, v. 302.
Advertising, self, iii. 393, iv. 59

by controversy, iii. 407; physi-
cians: See Quacks.
Advice, i. 117, i. 465, iii. 101, 229,
v. 65; disagreeable, i. 119;
Gold-
smith and, ii. 107.
Afer, Constantinus, iii. 478.
Affectation in poetry, i. 380; in
style, ii. 448, v. 139; and art, i.
328; and nature, iv. 498.
Affection, iii. 69 n.
*Afghanistan, Ghors of, iii. 274 n.
Africa, animals of, v. 86.
Age, life endeared by, iii. 276;
restored to youth, iii. 89; and
knowledge only sour our disposi-
tions, ii. 334; old, and youth, i.

275.

Age, the, degeneracy of, i. 275;
the present, i. 323. See also
Times.

Ages, the bright and dark, iii. 237.
Agincourt, battle of, i. 278, iii.
452, v. 288.

Agreeable situation, an, i. 402.
Agriculture, the genius of, i. 373.
Agrippa, iii. 314.

"Ahme! when shall I marry me?"
(song) ii. 110.

Aikin, Dr., his 'Life' of Gold-
smith, i. 18, v. 3 n.; his ‘Anec-
dotes' of Goldsmith, iv. 303.
Ailsbury, Bishop of (? Salisbury),
iv. 178.
Aims, high, ii. 374.
Aix, iv. 62.

Akenside, iii. 513 n., iv. 335.
Alarmist reports, iii. 384.

Alarmists, stock-holding, i. 312.
Albemarle Street Club, the, ii.
260 n.

Albinus, Prof., i. 419, 424.
'Alcander and Septimius,' ii. 313.

(notes, &c.) on, i. 53.

'Alcanor and Eudosia,' v. 413.
Alcanor the Theban, and Atalanta,
iv. 430.

Alcibiades and Eupolis, i. 349.
Alcoran quoted, iii. 364.
Aldermen, iii. 105, 504.
Aldrich, Rev. S., ii. 467, 473.
Aldrovandus, U., v. 70, 72, 186.

Ale-house, the, and home, iii. 245;

keepers, ii. 414.
Alexander, iii. 418, iv. 468, iv.
487; at Persepolis, iv. 111; and
his physician, i. 333.
Alexander III., iii. 161.
Alexander, Sir Wm., iv. 424.
Alexandria in the reign of Theo-
dosius the younger, ii. 349.
Alfred the Great, iii. 161, v. 270,
271; his laws and learning; he
founds Oxford University.
Alfric, iii. 477.
Algarotti, iii. 490.

Ali, Persian prophet. See Haly.
Allen, Ralph, iv. 106; and Bath,
iv. 107 n.

Allen, Tom, i. 423.

Allemande, the, dance, ii. 297.
Alliteration, ii. 4.
All-night, the Countess of, iii. 207.
Ally Cawn, ii. 237.
** Jaffier

*

Ally Cawn, an Indian nabob
concerned in the Warren Has-
tings, and previous, troubles in
India.
Ally Croaker (? Ally Croker of
the Irish Song), ii. 237.
** J.
W. Croker says of Ally Croker
(Stan. Lib. Boswell, iii. 265)—
"This lady, a celebrated beauty
in her day, was Alicia, the
youngest daughter of Colonel
Croker, of Ballinagard, in the
county of Limerick. The lover
whose rejection has immortalised
her name is not known. She
Idied without issue about the
middle of the last century."
Almack's, at, ii. 157. It ap-
pears there were two Almacks,
a dancing-rooms and a gaming-
club. Both originated with the
same Scotchman, Almack. The
club, in Pall Mall, was estab-
lished in 1763 by Fox and
others; the dancing-rooms, on
the site of Willis's Rooms, date
about a year later.

*

The

Irish Dr. Campbell" described
the dancing-place in 1775 (vide

Almanacks, iv. 434.

Alms-giver, Goldsmith appointed
an, v. 177 n.

Alone in a crowd, iii. 29.
Alphabet, the Chinese, iii. 2 n.
Alphabets, origin of, iv. 310, 313.
Alphonso, iii. 161.

Alps, the, ii. 7, 1. 31, v. 193; people
of, ii. 306; Goldsmith's wan-
derings there, v. 214.

Alston, Prof., i. 418, v. 127.
Altham, Lord, iv. 103.
Altama, wild, ii. 43, 1. 344.
Amanuensis, Goldsmith's attempt
to work through an, i. 23.
Amateurs, iii. 180.
Amazons, the, i. 317.
Ambition, ii. 3; disappointed,
cure for, iii. 351; old and new,
i. 280; of Lord Bolingbroke, iv.
220; and philosophy, iii. 490.
Ambitious mind, an, iv. 212.
Ambulaaohamed, poet, iii. 83.
Ambusheer, iii. 338.

Ambs ace. See Ames ace.
Amelia, Princess, iv. 135; Beau
Nash and, iv. 69.

* *

*

Amelia Wilhelmina Carolina Gro-
gan, i. 308: See also Skeggs,
and Tibbs.
Goldsmith's
use of these names comes, no
doubt, from their popularity
consequent upon the Queen (of
George II.) being named Wil-
helmina Dorothea Carolina.
America, animals there are small
and tame, v. 87; enlisting Eng-
lish slaves for, i. 162; Gold-
smith's design of going there, i.
413; he predicts the War of

Aminadab, little, ii. 222.

Amor Patriæ, the Romans', ii. 426.
Amsterdam, i. 163; a merchant
of, iii. 13, 14.

'Amulius et Numitor,' Voltaire's,
iii. 163 n.

Amusement, i. 290, 459, v. 259;
books as, iii. 282; innocent, v.
189, 238; instructive, iii. 514;
the search for, iii. 527; tasks as,
ii. 409; and instruction, iv. 75;
and learning, v. 198.
Amusements of ladies, temp. 1760,

iii. 371 n.; of youth, i. 275;
stage, 400, 401; trifling, iii. 187.
Amusing, better be, than

use-

ful, iii. 172; books, i. 179.
Amyot, Thos., iv. 407 n.
Anacreon, i. 436; in Elysium, iv. 488.
Anamaboo, iii. 272.
Anastomosis, an, iii. 66.
Anaxagoras, i. 328.

Ancient writings, forged, v. 134.
Ancients, the, their acquaintance
with natural philosophy, v. 145;
fabulous accounts of, v. 170;
Moses Primrose quotes, i. 89,
92; on our side is half a victory,
ii. 428; all the systems of morals
are from them, v. 343; and
moderns, iii. 529.
Andrews, Dr., i. 470.
Anecdote and history, v. 136.
Anecdotes and high-lived dia-
logues, the fondness for, i. 112.
Anger, i. 476.

Anglers' enjoyment, v. 239.
Anglesey, Earl of, and the An-
nesley peerage case, iv. 103.
Anglo-Saxon language, Hicks,
Dr., on, iv. 438.

Animals, antipathies among, v.
82; those of America are small,
v. 87; Cartesian theory of, iii.
448; crossing the breeds of, v.
93; cruelty to, iii. 56; effects
of climate on, iii. 340; extinct,
v. 79, 93; fecundity of, v. 88;
five, at a meal, a fable, iii. 362;
generation of, v. 88, 90, 91; in-
ferior, tenderness for, i. 266;
kindness to, v. 374, 384; are
represt by the vicinity of man,
v. 78, 85, 213; are sagacious in
proportion as they cultivate so-
ciety, ii. 369; savage and domes-
tic, v. 77, 86; spirits embodied
in, iii. 57; torture of to satisfy
gluttony, v. 110; and men:
See Men and animals, &c.
'Animated Nature, A History of
the Earth and' (extracts from),
1769-74, v. 181.

its alleged errors and won-
derful stories, v. 83, 190, 191,
200, 212.

Goldsmith studying for it, v.
212, 216.

(notes on), i. 30, 461,462, 464,
473, 484, ii. 135, 136, iii. 300,
v. 2, 77, 119, 129, 174, 182, 217.
(criticism of), i. 31, v. 182,

212.

*

(cross-references to the ex-
tracts), iii. 470, iv. 358, 506, v.
77, 118, 232.
Anodyne necklace, dying of an, i.
156. ** Mr. Austin Dobson
(whose Parchment Library edi-
tion of the Vicar of Wakefield'
came to hand after our first
volumes were printed) says this
is a reference to a quack remedy
much advertised in Goldsmith's
time. The necklaces were more
particularly recommended for
children while teething, and
they seem to have been put for-
ward by a Dr. Tanner.
Anon, ii. 250.
"Another guess," i. 148, ii. 163.
*Used "instead of other-