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BOOK III. 1759 to. 1767.
AUTHORSHIP BY CHOICE. Pages 213 to 439. (And pages 3 to 110 of the Second
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CHAPTER I.
; 1759.
WEEDING THE " BEE."
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1759. Activity hi Grub-street
/Et. 31, Dullness and her progeny . . A doubtful recruit Samuel Johnson . ...
A walk round Grosvenor-square
The knell of patronage Encouragement and example . Thirty pounds a year . . . A Great Cham hi great distress • Society gathering round John- son . . . . .
Poverty and independence . .
(October) First number of the
See ......
Playhouse criticism .
The author of Gisippus . . . Actors and actresses, Gold- smith and Charles Lamb Second number of the See . . Third number of the See . Goldsmith, Voltaire, and Talley- rand ......
Fourth number of the See.
Booksellers'literature . . . Writing for the Busy £ody and
the Lady's Magazine
Fifth number of the See . . Goldsmith's first mention of |
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A Lichfield citizen's account
ofit..... 250
Garrick's own account of it . 251
The shock to brother Peter . 252
Apologies for the stage . . 253
Audiences at Goodman's Fields 254
A dozen Dukes of a night . 255
Mr. Pitt and other M. P's . 25R
Peter continues obdurate . . 257
Increasing successes . . 258
Peter's terrible question . . 259
The question answered . . 260
Pope and Murray complete the
triiimph..... 261
The Future in the Present . 262
Influence on Garrick's cha- racter .... 263 |
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CHAPTER III.
1759-1760.
OVERTURES FBOM SMOLLETT AND ME.
NEWBEBY.
1759. (December) Important visitors
JEt. 31. in Green Arbour Court . . 264
Candour towards an unsuccess-
ful author .... 265
1760. (January 1) Smollett's British
Mt. 32. Magazine.....266
Essays contributed by Gold-
smith ..... 267
Cheerful philosophy . . . 268
A puff by Goldsmith . . . 269
A country Wow-wow . . . 269
(Jan. 12) Newbery's newspaper. 270
A Daily Paper then and now . 271
The author of Tommy Trip and
Giles Gingerbread . . . 271
Goldsmith engaged for the Public
ledger .'..... 272
A Guinea an Article . . . 272
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All evening with a bookseller
Night wanderings . . Sympathy with the wretched |
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CHAPTER II.
1759.
DAVID GABB.IOK.
1759. (November 29th) Close of the See 231
3it. 81. Love of the theatre . . . 231
Garriok and Ralph . , . 232
Authors and managers . . . 238
Unpublished letter by Mr. Ralph 234
A comic or a tragic Luliput ? . 235
Garrick's management . , . 236
Injustice to players and wrongs
to dramatists .... 237
Goldsmith attacks Garrick . . 238
Garrick resents the attack . 239
Inconsiderate expressions . . 240
The actor's claims . . . 241
[A retrospect of Garrick's yoitih and first appearanee on the stage, from umrinted letters, pp. 242 to 268.]
Acting Serjeant Kite at eleven 242
. The boy's letters to his father 243
His father's picture . . . 244
At Johnson's school . . 244
A wine-merchant . . . 245
Acts under an assumed name 246
. His brother and the wine-trade 246
What acting was then . . 247
. The old school and the new .' 248
The 19th October, 1741 .. . 249
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CHAPTER IV.
1760.
" THE CITIZEN OB1 THE WOBLD."
1760. (January 24 and 29) The first
j35t. 32. and second Cliinese Letters . 273
Percy's novel and Walpole's
squib...... 273
Newspaper shadows and reali-
ties ...... 274
• Griffiths swallows the leek ; . 275
The Citizen of tlie World . . 276
- Social reforms suggested in it . 277
Quacks and pretenders . , 278
Law and Church..... 278
Doctor Marrowfat . . . 279
Property and poverty . ... 280
Mad-dog cries .... 281
Pictures of the day . . . 282
Laurence Sterna . . . 282
Goldsmith's attack on Tristram
Shandy . . ... 283
, Beau Tibba andthe Man inBlack 284
Jack Pilkington. . . . 285
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