TABLE OP CONTENTS.

The triumph ...
A boy among boys . .
Bitter mortifications .
Hester Milner ...
A pert young gentleman
Master Bishop and the apple

woman. ....
Meets Griffiths the bookseller
Writes a specimen-review .
Leases himself to Griffiths .
Au author's prospects .

Interval between patrons and

public . . . . . . 93

Literature used and despised . 94

Origin of Grub-street . . . 95
Sam Johnson and the lower class

of writers..... 96

Mr. John. Jackson and the higher

class...... 96

The Reign of periodicals . . 97

Goldsmith at the Dunciad . . 98

BOOK II. 1757 to 1759.
ATJTHOKSHIP BY COMPULSION. Pages 101 to 209.

CHAPTER I.

1757.

REVIEWING FOB, ME. AMD MBS. GRIFFITHS.

TAGS

1757. Author by Profession . . 101

JBt. 29. In the Griffiths-livery . . . 102
Mr. De Quincy's opinion of the

hiring ' . . . . .103
Writing for the Monthly Revieip . lOi
Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths superin-
tending ..... 105

Northern Antiquities . . . .10(5

The tragedy of Dovglas . . . 106

Why Garrick rejected it . . 107

The Poker Club . . . . 107

Advantages of persecution . 108

A. polite pooh ! pooh! , . . . 109

Wilkie's E'figomail . . 110

A. poet used for a scarecrow . . 110
Distinguished Mr. Puffs . .111
Want of critical depth no proof

of literary envy . . ... 112

Bonnell Thornton and George •

Colman..... 112

Criticising and praising Burke . 113
Compiling literary news from

Padua . . . . . 113

: Smollett, Hume, andWarhurton 114

Jonas Hauway and his projects. 115

Vails to servants put down . 115

Umbrellas forced into use . . 116

The Journey from Portsinouth . 117
Polignao's Anti-Lucrelim and

Gray's Mazier Tommy . . 118

Goldsmith and Horace Walpole. 119
Voltaire as a dramatist, Gray

and Bulwer-Lytton . . 119

Odes by Mr. Gray . . . . 120

Walpole's quarrel with Gray . 120

Habit of depreciation . . 121

Lessons in poetry . . . . 122

Gray praised by Goldsmith . 123

Johnson's influence yet unfelt . 124

CHAPTER II.

1757-1758.

MAKING SHIFT TO EXIST.

1757. Quarrel with Griffiths . . 125
Close of engagement on the
Monthly Review . . •. . 125

Mr. De Quincy's opinion of Mrs.

Griffiths . . . -. . 126
Interpolation of articles . . 126
Mr. Griffiths's opinion of Gold-
smith ...... 127

In a garret near Salisbury-sq. . 128
Doctor James Grainger . . 128
Brother Charles visits the garret 129
A sore disappointment . . . 130
Charles Goldsmith's later for-
tunes ...... 130

Letter to brother-in-law Hodson 131
A picture for Irish friends . . 182
Irish memories and Irish pro-
mises ..... 133

Poor physician and poorer poet 134

1758. In debt all over Europe . . 134
JEt. 30. (February) • Translating- under

a feigned name . . . 135
Loses hope and courage . . 136
Gives up literature . . . 137
Goes back to Peekham school . 138
A medical appointment pro-
mised . . . . . 138
One more literary effort . . 139
Irish, independence . . . 139
Released from Peckham school. 140

CHAPTER III.

1758.
ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE TOOM LITERATURE.

1758. A new Magazine . ... 141
2Bt. 80. (August) Working for his outfit. 142

Letter to Edward Mills
What an Irish relative might do
What the Irish relative did . .
Letter to Robert Bryanton.
The Future invoked against the

Present.....

Ordinary fate of Authors .
Bread wanting, and milk-score

unpaid.....

Despair in the garret .
Starving where Butler and

Otway starved . . . .
Lamentations of a good old

English gentleman .
Letter to cousin Jane . . .
A fancy poi-trait
Living death of Uncle Gontarine

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