The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith

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10 Raleigh's Hist. of the World, 1614.
11 Breval's Travals, 1738. Horrebow's
Hist. of Iceland, 1758. Ludolphus's
Hist. of Ethiopia.

12 Pietro della Valle's Travels 1665. Sir
J. Chardin's Travels, 1686. Herbert's
Travels, 1638.

13 Ambassador's Voyages and Travels, 1662. Sandys's Travels, 1637. Life of John de Castro, 1664. Taverner's Travels, 1684.

14 Stanley's Lives of the Philosophers, 1701.

15 Rolt's Dictionary of Trade and commerce, 1761.

16 Croker's Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 3 vols. 1768.

17 Stephani Thesaurus, Ling. Lat. 2 tom.
Par. 1543.

18 Fabri Thesaurus, Lips. 1726.
19 Calipini Dictionarium, 2 tom. Bas.
Scapulæ Lexicon, Gen. 1619. Photii
Bibliotheca. Rothom. 1653.

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5 Puffendorf droit de la Nature, 2 tom. Oeuvres de Boileau.

6 Hist. de Blois. Tournefort's Voyage du Levant. Amst. 1718. Tournefort's Herbaria. Par. 3 vol. 1719, and 5

more.

7 Bonda Carmina ex Lap. Antiq. 1751. Casaubon's de Rebus Sacris, 1654. Institut. Univers. Philosoph. 2 tom. Donati Roma Vetus a Recens, 1695, and 11 more.

Miscellanea Græcorum aliquot Script.
Carmina a Maittaire, Lond. 1722.
Bohadsch de Animal. Marinis, 1761.
Noodt Opera Omnia, 1713.

9 Rosini Antiq. Rom. 1663. Wolfii Ele-
ment. Matheseos, 2 tom. 1717, and
5 more.
Miscellanea Curiosa Medico. Physica,
19 tom. Lips. 1670, &c. Orlando
Furioso di Ariosto. Ven. 1564.
Davila Hist. di Francia, 1642. L'Er-
coma del Sig. Biondi, 1624.
Philosophical Transactions, 3 vol.
The same abridged, by Lowthorp
and Jones 5 vol.

20 Aldrovandus de Quadrupedibus, Piscibus & Ornithologia, 3 tom. 12 Bonon. 1619, &c.

21 Oeuvres de la Mothe le Vayer, 2 tom.
1656. Oeuvres du P. le Moyne. 1671. 13
22 Dictionaire de Commerce, par Sa-
vary, 3 tom. Par. 1723.

23 Aristotelis Opera, 4 tom. Par. 1639.
24 Xenophontis Opera Gr. H. Stephani.
Gen. 1581. Diogines Laertius. Lond.
1664.

25 Kappii Bibliotheca, Amst. 1744.
26 Rushworth's Collections, 3 vol.
chiavel's Works, 1675.

Cibber's Apology and Considerations on the Life of Cicero, 1740, &c. Astruc on the Venereal Disease, 1754. Owen on Serpents, 1742. Revolutions d'Espagne par le P. d'Orleans, 3 tom. 1734.

17 Bulwer's Artificial Changling, 1653. Verstigan's Antiquities, 1634. Hartlib's Legacie, 1651. Sir K. Digby on the Nature of Bodies, 1645.

18 Histoire des Insectes par de Geer, 2 tom. Stock. 1771.

19 Dictionaire Raisonne & Univers. des Animaux, 4 tom. Par. 1759.

1 Fenton's Poems. Williams's Poems. 20
Say's Poems. The Secretes of Maister
Alexis 1580, and 9 more. Literary 21
Journals, &c.

2 Acta Lipsiensa, 7 tom. 1736, &c.
3 Oeuvres de Voiture, Par. 1650. His-
toire de Turcs, Pieces Curieuses,
1644.

#3 Histoire de Poissons par Gouan, 1770, and 7 more.

4 Chefs d'Oeuvres de Marmontel. Par. 24 1773. Histoire de Ciceron, 2 tom. ib. 1745.

Leland's Life of Philip of Macedon, 1761.

Wharton's History of English Poetry, 1774.

Killarney, a Poem, by Leslie, Dub. 1772. Chambers's Oriental Gardening, 1772.

La Jartiere, a French Poem, in M. S. S. dedicated to the King, elegantly

bound.

Terentius, Horatius, Virgilius, Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius, 4 tom. Cant. 1701.

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25 Lucretius, Lond. 1712.

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19 Lettre del Annibal Caro, 6 vol.

26 Encyclopedie ou Dictionare Univers. 20 Dryden's Virgil, 3 vol. 1763. Raisonne, 25 tom. 1770.

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OCTAVOS, TWELVES, &c.

21 Fielding's Works, 12 vol. 1766.
22 Bysshe's Art of Poetry, 2 vol. and
Hoole's Metastatio, 2 vol.

23 World, 4 vol. and Bysshe's Art of
24 Connoisseur, 4 vol.
Poetry, 2 vol.

25 Young's Works, 4 vol. 1762.

1 Voyages to Bengal and Buenos Ayres.
Three odd volumes of Plays.
Epistles of Aristænetus and 4 more.
2 Collier on Trade. Chapman on Edu-26 Gay's Poems, 2 vol. 1767.
cation. Travels to Arabia. Henry 27 Hawkins's Origin
and Frances, 3 and 4 vol. Van-
burgh's Plays, and 4 more.

Metastasio, 2 vol. 1767.

Drama, 3 vol. 1773.

Hoole's

of the English

3 Brook's Natural History, 5 and 6 vol. 28 Reliques of Ancient Poetry, 3 vol.

Dublin, 1766.

The Idler vol. 1. Scot's Epigrams. 29 Cibber's Works, 5 vol. 1760.
Pac on the Roman Poets, and 4 more.

4 Bons Mots de Santeuil. Lettres de 30

Montesquieu. Dictionaire Gentil-
homme. Four odd vols. of Cor-

Bell's Travels, 2 vols. 1764. Sentimental Journey through Greece, 3 vol. 1772.

neille's Plays, and 7 more French 31 Pope's Homer, 2 vol.

books.

5 French Plays by Avis. Ditto by Grange. Ditto by Champmélé. Theatre de la Foire. Ditto by Fa- 32 vart, and 5 more.

6 Analecta Medii; Aeviæ Specimen Literatur Florentina, 2 vols. and 6 more.

Edinb. 1767. Gray's Poems, 2 vol. 1767. Celebrated Authors, 2 vol. 1750. Waller's Poems, 1758.

Hughes's Spencer, 6 vol. 1750. 33 Cibber's Lives of the Poets, 5 vol. 1753.

34 Amenites Litteraires and Recueil d'Anecdotes, 2 tom. 1773.

7 Voyage par Winckleman. Passetemps 35 Poetique. Fanny Palmer, 2 parts. Scaroon Roman Comique, 2 tom. and 10 more.

8 Ouvres de Balzac. Theatre Espagnol, 2 tom. Theatre de la Chaussée, and 3 more.

9 La Fabricia Bibliotheca, 3 tom. Theophrastus. Martial, and 15 more. 10 Ouvres D'ancourt, 7 tom. the 1st wanting. Ouvres de Bruey's, 1st 3d 4th and 5th tom. Theatre de la Haye, 1st 2d 4th and 5th tom.

11 Histoire de L'Academie Royale, 15 tom. the 11th wanting.

12 Theatre Italien De Gherardi, 3 tom. 1st wanting, and 8 others.

13 Goldsmith's History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 8 vol. imperfect, and 2 vol. of curious pamphlets.

Recherches Philosophiques, 2 tom.
1773. Histoire du Fanatisme, 2 tom.
1737.

Oeuvres de Boissy, 8 tom. 1768.
Histoire de Siam, 2 tom. 1771. Voyage
Litteraire de la Grece, 2 tom. 1771.
Voyage d'Italie, 2 tom. 1773.
Oeuvres de Rousseau, 4 tom. 1734.
Dictionaire Literaire, 3 tom. Liege,
1768. Dictionaire Veterinaire & des
Animaux Domestiques, 2 tom. Par.
1770.

Dictionaire Critique Pittoresque &
Sentencieux, 3 tom. Par. 1768. Dic-
tionaire d'Anecdotes, 2 tom. Par.
1769. Dictionaire Abrege d'Anti-
quites, Par. 1773.

40 Commedia di Dante, 3 tom. Ven. 1751. 41 Rime de Chiabrera, 3 tom. Rom. 1718. Parrhasiana, 2 tom. Ducatiana, 2 Tom. Naudæana & Patiniana, 1703. Oeuvres de Gresset, 2 tom. Oeuvres de Saintfoix, 2 tom.

15 Tindal's Continuation, 25th 27th and 28th vol. Milton's History of England.

46 Memoires de Retz, 4 tom. Bossuet Histoire Universelle, 2 tom.

Oeuvres de Pavillon, 2 tom. 1750.

Voyage a L'Isle de France, a l'Isle de Bourbon, 2 tom. 1773.

Les Efforts de la Liberte & du Patriotisme, 3 tom. 1772. Constitution de L'Angleterre, 1772. Congres Politique, 1772.

Le Deserteur par Mercier, 1770. Le Fabricant de Londres, 1771. Gaston & Baiard par Belloy, 1770. Le Temple de Gnide, and 3 more.

54 Recueil des Poetes Francois, 6 tom. 80 Fermin's Histoire Naturelle de la

Par. 1752.

Hollande Equinoxiale, Amst. 1765.
Questions sur L'Encyclopedie, 2
tom, 1771. L'An Deux Mille Quatre
Cent. Quarante, 1772.

La Palingenesie Philosophique, 2 tom. 1769. Coup d'Eil d'une BiblioMusa Anglican. 2 tom. 1699. Vida theque, very curious. 83 Apparatus Litterarius. 3 tom. Apu. Poemata, 2 tom. 1732. leius, 3 tom.

66 Prudentius, Col. 1701. Sophoclis Frag. 88 2 tom. Glasg. 1745. Virgil Maavicij, Amst. 1730. Salustius, Edinb.

1755.

Seneca Opera, 2 tom. 1590. Homeri
Ilias. Andron. Rhodius. Panegy-
Lucretius, 2 tom. 1743.
rica. Aristophanis, and one more.

86 Euripidis, 2 tom. Cant. 1726. Juvenal
and Persii Satyræ, Amst. 1684.
87 Municii Filicis, 1709. Isocratis, 1729.
Aureli Victoris, 1670. Dionysii Or-
bis Descriptio, 1688, and 2 more.
Eliani Var Historiæ, 2 tom. Amst.
1670. Appiani Hist. 2 tom. ib. 1770,
Historia Augusta Scriptores, 1661.
Alexand. ab. Alexandro. Par. 1549.
Montesquieu on the Roman Empire,
1759. Duten's Enquiry, 1769. Der-
ham's Physico Theology, 1768.
Stanyan's Grecian History, 2 vol.
1766. History of Friar Gerund,
2 vol. 1772. Freind's History of
Physic, 2 vol. Berkenhout's Out-
lines of Nat. Hist. 1769. Walton
and Cotton's Angler, 1766.
Milton's Works, 2 vol. 1705. Odes,
Elegies, Ballads, &c. by Ball. Dublin.
Translations from the Asiatick Lan-
guage. Oxf. 1772, and one more.

67 Selecta_Poemata Italorum, 2 tom. 89
1740. Petronius Arbiter, 1677. Pomp.
Mela. 1743. Claudianus, Elz. 1650.
68 Ovidij Opera, 3 tom. Par. 1762. Vir- 90
gilij Opera, 2 tom. Par. 1767.

69 Horatij Opera, Par. 1763. Juvenalis
& Persii Satira, ib. 1754.

Fabulæ, ib. 1769.

Æsopi

70 Martialis Epigram. 2 tom. Par. 1754. Plauti Comœdiæ, 3 tom. ib. 1759.

71 Taciti Opera, 3 tom. Par. 1760. Vel. Paterculus, ib. 1754.

72 J. Cæsaris Comment. 2 tom. Par. 1755.

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92 Echard's Roman History, 5 vol. and 2 more.

93 Italia Liberata, 1729. Dictionaire de Commerce, 1769. Satires de Juvenal, 1770, and 1 more.

94 Penant's Synopsis of Quadrupeds, Chest. 1771.

95 Bossu's Travels, 2 vol. 1771. Ulloa's Voyage, 2 vol. 1760. Hist. of the East Indies, 2 vol. 1757.

96 De Bure Bibliographia Instructione,

9 tom.

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97 Jones Perseos Asiaticæ. 98 Sir William Temple's Work, 4 vol. 99 Dictionnaire Typographique, 2 tom. 100 Linnæi Systema Naturæ, 3 tom. 101 De Fauna Suecica, 1 tom. 102 De Amenitates Academicæ, 7 vol. 103 Rollin's Ancient History, 8vo. 7 vol. 104 Oeuvres Diderot, 5 vol. 105 Rapin's History of England, 21 vol. 106 Orlando Furioso, by Baskerville, very fine Plates, 5 vol.

INDEX.

ABINGTON, Mrs., refuses to play Miss
Hardcastle, II. 260; great favourite with
the Literary Club, ib, n.
Abridgment, art of, described by Gold-
smith, 11. 215, 216 n.

Academies, their nature and their in-
fluence, II. 187, 188; Reynolds and East-
lake on their non-Academical merits,
ib. n, 189 n.

Academy, Royal, its formation, I. 97;
Reynolds unanimously elected Presi-
dent, ib; chief movers in the establish-
ment of the society, ib, n; Johnson ap-
pointed first Professor of Ancient Li-
terature, ib; Goldsmith first Professor
of History, ib; its first annual dinner,
187; incidents at subsequent dinners,
ib, n; Reynolds's Discourses, 188 n;
conversation between Walpole and
Goldsmith on the subject of Chatter-
ton, 189.

Act of Union, English copyright not ex-
tended to Ireland till, 1. 98; its effects,
ib.

Actor, his peculiar claims and the allow-
ances to be made for him, I. 166; com-
parison with authors and painters, their
relative doings and shortcomings, 167.
Addison, 1.66; the difference between his
conversation and his writings, II. 60 n;
advice as to laughter, 135; a poor talker,
146; yet the best company in the world,
ib, n; and see 294 n.
Agreements, booksellers', Dodsley's with
Goldsmith, 1. 256 n; Milton's for Para-
dise Lost, ib; Dryden's for the Fables, ib;
old Gardener's with Smart, 290; Da-
vies's, II. 41, 116 n, 170; Griffin's, 115,
237.
Akenside, Mark, sneered at by Walpole,
and slighted by Gray, 1. 85; influence
of Spenser on his poetry, 127.

Albinus, professor at Leyden, 1. 39.
Ale-house wager, anecdote by Goldsmith,
II. 81 n.

Almack's, gambling at, in Goldsmith's
day, II. 197.

Alps, the, Goldsmith eats a savoury
dinner on the top of, 1. 50, 279 n.
Andersen, Hans, estimate of actors, II.26;
fables for children, remarks on his,
147 n.

Animated Nature, quoted for anecdotes,
characteristics, or traits of personal
feeling and interest, 1. 27 n, 46, 49 n. 50
52, 217 n, 257; 11. 67, 90 n, 94 n, 157 n,
163, 169 n, 203-205, 234-237, 283, 284,
292, 301; Johnson's anticipations re-
specting, 115; first agreement for, ib;
seeing sights, and collecting materials,
201-203; instances of credulity, 204,
205; exquisite natural painting in the
book, 235; love of nature and birds,
235, 236; hatred of all cruelty, ib, 237;
obligations to the goose, 237; experi-
ments in natural science, 283; as to ab-
stinence, 284 n; completion of the task-
work, 323.

Annet, Peter, his crusade against the
Bible, I. 217; stands twice in the pil-
lory, ib; imprisoned in the King's-
bench, ib; Goldsmith's benevolent visit
to him, ib; perversity of his temper,
218 n.

Anstey, Christopher, author of the Bath
Guide, II. 17, 18; Walpole's estimate of
his merits, ib, 264; influence of social
rank in the success of his poem, 18;
Walpole anxious to know him rather
than Goldsmith, 186 n.

Answer to the Critical Review, 1. 129; re-
viewed by Goldsmith, ib.
Antiquity, evil effects of its form without
its spirit on modern poetry, I. 87.
Antwerp, visited by Goldsmith, 1. 44.
Ardagh, the "best house" in, I. 15; Gold-

smith's youthful adventure there, ib.

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