By
Goldsmith
and Joseph
Collyer.
Collyer.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
1792.
D. Later Biography and Criticism
[See, also, ante, JOHNSON, secs. E, F, G. ]
Biographicus [Temple, J. W. ? ). Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine,
August 1795.
C. [Courtenay, J. ? ). Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine. June 1795.
Carlyle, Thomas. Essay on Boswell's Life of Johnson in Fraser's Magazine.
May 1832.
Fitzgerald, Percy. Life of James Boswell. 2 vols. 1891.
Forbes, Sir William. Life of Beattie. 1806.
Green, M. Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine. June 1795.
Henley, W. E. Views and Reviews. 1902.
Hill, G. Birkbeck. Boswell's Proof Sheets, in Johnson Club Papers. 1899.
Holcroft, Thomas. Memoirs. 3 vols. 1816.
Johnson, Lionel. Post Liminium: Essays and Critical Papers. 1911.
Leask, W. Keith. James Boswell. (Famous Scots Series. ) 1897.
Macaulay, Lord. Essay on Boswell's Life of Johnson. The Edinburgh
Review. September 1831.
Mallory, George. Boswell the Biographer. 1912.
Malone, Edmond. Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine. June 1795.
Nichols, John. Literary Anecdotes. 9 vols. 1812–15.
Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century. 8 vols.
1817-58.
R. , J. B. Memoirs of Boswell. The Gentleman's Magazine, June 1795.
Raleigh, Sir Walter. Six Essays on Johnson. 1910.
Rogers, Charles. Memoir, prefixed to Boswelliana. 1874.
Stephen, Sir Leslie. Art. on Boswell in D. of N. B. vol. 11. 1886.
Taylor, John. Records of my Life. 2 vols. 1832.
Whyte, E. A. Remarks on Boswell's Life of Johnson, Dublin, 1797.
(Included in A Miscellany by Whyte, S. and E. A. , 1799; reissued as
Miscellanea Nova, 1800 and 1801. )
CHAPTER IX
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
I. COLLECTED WORKS
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B. Compiled for Bishop
Percy, and edited by Rose, Samuel. 4 vols. 1801. (Includes the so-
called Percy memoir, and unpublished prologues to She Stoops to
Conquer. ) In the 4th edn, 1820, was first printed the oratorio The Cap-
tivity, afterwards issued separately in 1837.
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Ed. Prior, James. 4 vols.
1837. (Contains a variety of piece now first collected. ')
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. (Murray's British Classics. ) Ed. Cunning-
ham, Peter. 4 vols. 1854. (First printed translation of Vida's Game of
Chess. )
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481
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With memoir by Spalding, William.
1858. (Contains facsimile of important letter to Mrs Lawder (Jane
Contarine). )
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With life, etc. , by Waller, J. F. 1864-5.
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Globe edn. Biographical
introduction by Masson, David. 1869.
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. (Bohn's Standard Library. ) With notes
and life by Gibbs, J. W. M. 5 vols. 1885-6. (Contains some ‘hitherto
uncollected' pieces. )
II. Part COLLECTIONS
Poems and Plays, 1777; Poetical and Dramatic Works, 2 vols. 1780; Poetical
Works, Aldine edn, ed. Mitford, John, 1831; new edn, 1895; Poetical
Works, ed. Corney, Bolton, 1846; Goldsmith's Select Poems, ed. Lobban,
J. H. , 1900; Complete Poetical Works, ed. Dobson, A. , Oxford edn,
1906; Plays of Goldsmith, Belles-Lettres Series, edd. Dobson, A. and
Baker, George P. , 1903; and Plays and Vicar of Wakefield, by Doble,
C. E. and Ostler, G. , Oxford edn, 1909. (This last contains a valuable
glossarial index. )
III. SEPARATE WORKS
The Memoirs of a Protestant, condemned to the Galleys of France, for his
Religion. Written by Himself . . . . Translated from the Original, just
published at the Hague, by Willington, James. 2 vols. 1758. Reprint
published in 1895, with introduction by Dobson, A. , and facsimile of
Goldsmith's receipt to Edward Dilly.
An Enquiry into the present state of Polite Learning in Europe. 1759.
2nd edn, 'revised and corrected,' 1774. (In this edn much is omitted,
including the verses from Macrobius (Prologue of Laberius). )
The Bee. 6 October to 24 November 1759. Issued in a volume, December
1759. Annotated edn, by Dobson, A. (Temple Classics. ) 1903.
Memoirs of M. de Voltaire. The Lady's Magazine. 1761.
The Mystery Revealed. (Pamphlet on the Cook-lane Ghost. ) 1742 (1762).
The History of Mecklenburgh. 1762.
The Art of Poetry. 2 vols. 1762. (Said to have been revised by Goldsmith
for Newbery. )
The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, residing
in London, to his Friend in the East. Appeared in The Public Ledger
as Chinese Letters from 24 January 1760 to 14 August 1761; published
in two volumes, May 1762. Separate annotated edns by Knight, Charles,
1840; and Dobson, A. (Temple Library), 2 vols. 1891; and Temple Classics,
2 vols. 1900.
Plutarch's Lives, abridged from the Greek.
By Goldsmith and Joseph
Collyer. 7 vols. 1762.
The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esquire, 1762. 2nd edn, revised.
Same year.
An History of England in a series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son.
2 vols. 1764.
The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. Published 19 December 1764
(dated 1765). Three edns quickly followed, and a 9th was issued in
1774, the year of the author's death. (Numerous alterations were made
between the 1st and the 6th edn, of 1770. )
Essays. By Mr Goldsmith. 1765. 2nd edn, corrected, 1766.
Edwin and Angelina (The Hermit). Printed privately for the amusement of
E. L. X.
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482
Bibliography
the Countess of Northumberland. [1765. ] (Afterwards included in The
Vicar of Wakefield. )
The Vicar of Wakefield. 2 vols. 1766. Pub. 27 March. 2nd edn, 31 May;
3rd edn, 29 August; 4th edn, 1770; 5th edn, April 1774 (dated 1773).
(Johnson's 'exact narration' in Boswell (ed. Hill, G. B. , 1887, vol. I,
p. 416, and vol. II, p. 321), of which most other accounts are variations,
was that, some time before the publication of The Traveller in 1764,
having been applied to by Goldsmith in distress and durance, he
[Johnson) sold the MS to a bookseller for £60 (or guineas). In Charles
Welsh's life of Newbery, 1885, pp. 58-9, that writer pointed out that he
had found in some old account-books an entry showing that Goldsmith
had sold a third share of the book to Benjamin Collins, printer, of
Salisbury (who afterwards printed it), 28 October 1762, for £21. That
The Vicar was being written in 1761-2, is plain from internal evidence
(references to the musical glasses, the Auditor, etc. ); but no conclusive
solution of the apparent conflict between the two stories has yet been
propounded, although it may be a very simple one. )
A detailed bibliography of The Vicar, coming down to 1885, is prefixed
to Stock’s facsimile reprint of that date. There is also a bibliography in
the Great Writers series. Separate annotated editions were issued in
The Parchment Library, 1883, rev. 1908; by Macmillan, Michael, 1897;
and Doble, C. E. , Oxford edn, 1909.
A Concise History of Philosophy and Philosophers. Translated by Goldsmith
from the French of Formey, J. H. S. 1766.
A Short English Grammar, 1766.
Poems for Young Ladies. Collected, with Preface by Goldsmith. 1767.
Beauties of English Poesy. 2 vols. 1767.
The Good Naturd Man, a Comedy. 1768 (5 February). Produced at Covent
garden, 29 January. 5th edn. 1768.
The Roman History. 2 vols. 1769. Abridged by the author for the use of
schools, 1772.
The Deserted Village. Published 26 May 1770. Four more edns in the same
year.
The Life of Thomas Parnell. 1770. Also prefixed to Parnell's Works, same
year.
The Life of Henry St John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. 1770. (Originally
prefixed to Bolingbroke's Dissertation on Parties. )
The History of England. 4 vols. 1771.
Threnodia Augustalis. Monody on the Death of the Princess Dowager of
Wales. 1772.
She Stoops to Conquer, a Comedy. 1773 (26 March). Produced at Covent
garden, 15 March.
[For a Song by Dr Goldsmith, originally intended to be sung by Miss
Hardcastle in this comedy, see a letter by James Boswell in The London
Magazine for June 1774. ]
Retaliation, a Poem, 1774 (19 April). 2nd edn, with "explanatory notes,'
same year. Fifth edn, 1774, with supplementary epitaph on Caleb White-
foord. To an 8th edn, 1777, other poems were added, together with a
life varied from Glorer's Anecdotes, Annual Register, 1774, pp. 29-34.
An History of the Earth and Animated Nature. 8 vols. 1774.
The Haunch of Venison, a poetical epistle to Lord Clare. 1776. (Contains
H. W. Bunbury's portrait. )
A Survey of Experimental Philosophy. 2 vols. 1776.
The Comic Romance of Monsieur Scarron. 2 vols. [1780. ] Translation
attributed to Goldsmith.
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483
IV. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
Black, W. Goldsmith. English Men of Letters. 1878.
Boswell, James. Life of Samuel Johnson, etc. 2 vols. 1791.
Cooke, W. European Magazine. 1793. Pp. 91-5, 170-4, 258-63.
Courthope, W. J. History of English Poetry. 1905. (Vol. v, pp. 209-19. )
Cox, M. F. The Country and Kindred of Oliver Goldsmith. Journal of the
National Literary Society of Ireland, 1900. (Vol. 1, pt. ii, pp. 81-111. )
1
Cumberland, Richard. Memoirs. . . written by Himself. 2 vols. 1807. (Vol. 1,
pp. 350–74. )
Davies, T. Memoirs of David Garrick. 2 vols. 1780. (Vol. 11, pp. 142-64. )
- De Quincey, Thomas. Works, 1853-60. (Vol. vi, pp. 194-233. )
Dobson, Austin. Life of Goldsmith. Great Writers, 1888. Contains three
hitherto unpublished letters; and a Bibliography by Anderson, John P.
Rev. edn, without Bibliography, New York, 1899.
Ford, E. Names and Characters in the Vicar of Wakefield. National
Review, May, 1883.
Forster, J. Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith, A Biography. 1848.
2nd edn. 2 vols. 1854. Final edn. 1877.
Article on this in Quarterly Review, vol. xcv (pp. 394-448).
Forsyth, W. Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century, etc. 1871.
(Chap. x. )
Glover, William. Anecdotes of the late Dr Goldsmith. Annual Register,
1774. (Pp. 29-34. )
Hawes, W. An Account of the late Dr Goldsmith's Illness, etc. 1774.
4th edn. 1780.
Hawkins, Sir John. Life of Samuel Johnson. 1787. Pp. 416-21.
D. Later Biography and Criticism
[See, also, ante, JOHNSON, secs. E, F, G. ]
Biographicus [Temple, J. W. ? ). Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine,
August 1795.
C. [Courtenay, J. ? ). Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine. June 1795.
Carlyle, Thomas. Essay on Boswell's Life of Johnson in Fraser's Magazine.
May 1832.
Fitzgerald, Percy. Life of James Boswell. 2 vols. 1891.
Forbes, Sir William. Life of Beattie. 1806.
Green, M. Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine. June 1795.
Henley, W. E. Views and Reviews. 1902.
Hill, G. Birkbeck. Boswell's Proof Sheets, in Johnson Club Papers. 1899.
Holcroft, Thomas. Memoirs. 3 vols. 1816.
Johnson, Lionel. Post Liminium: Essays and Critical Papers. 1911.
Leask, W. Keith. James Boswell. (Famous Scots Series. ) 1897.
Macaulay, Lord. Essay on Boswell's Life of Johnson. The Edinburgh
Review. September 1831.
Mallory, George. Boswell the Biographer. 1912.
Malone, Edmond. Letter. The Gentleman's Magazine. June 1795.
Nichols, John. Literary Anecdotes. 9 vols. 1812–15.
Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century. 8 vols.
1817-58.
R. , J. B. Memoirs of Boswell. The Gentleman's Magazine, June 1795.
Raleigh, Sir Walter. Six Essays on Johnson. 1910.
Rogers, Charles. Memoir, prefixed to Boswelliana. 1874.
Stephen, Sir Leslie. Art. on Boswell in D. of N. B. vol. 11. 1886.
Taylor, John. Records of my Life. 2 vols. 1832.
Whyte, E. A. Remarks on Boswell's Life of Johnson, Dublin, 1797.
(Included in A Miscellany by Whyte, S. and E. A. , 1799; reissued as
Miscellanea Nova, 1800 and 1801. )
CHAPTER IX
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
I. COLLECTED WORKS
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B. Compiled for Bishop
Percy, and edited by Rose, Samuel. 4 vols. 1801. (Includes the so-
called Percy memoir, and unpublished prologues to She Stoops to
Conquer. ) In the 4th edn, 1820, was first printed the oratorio The Cap-
tivity, afterwards issued separately in 1837.
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Ed. Prior, James. 4 vols.
1837. (Contains a variety of piece now first collected. ')
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. (Murray's British Classics. ) Ed. Cunning-
ham, Peter. 4 vols. 1854. (First printed translation of Vida's Game of
Chess. )
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Chapter IX
481
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With memoir by Spalding, William.
1858. (Contains facsimile of important letter to Mrs Lawder (Jane
Contarine). )
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With life, etc. , by Waller, J. F. 1864-5.
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Globe edn. Biographical
introduction by Masson, David. 1869.
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. (Bohn's Standard Library. ) With notes
and life by Gibbs, J. W. M. 5 vols. 1885-6. (Contains some ‘hitherto
uncollected' pieces. )
II. Part COLLECTIONS
Poems and Plays, 1777; Poetical and Dramatic Works, 2 vols. 1780; Poetical
Works, Aldine edn, ed. Mitford, John, 1831; new edn, 1895; Poetical
Works, ed. Corney, Bolton, 1846; Goldsmith's Select Poems, ed. Lobban,
J. H. , 1900; Complete Poetical Works, ed. Dobson, A. , Oxford edn,
1906; Plays of Goldsmith, Belles-Lettres Series, edd. Dobson, A. and
Baker, George P. , 1903; and Plays and Vicar of Wakefield, by Doble,
C. E. and Ostler, G. , Oxford edn, 1909. (This last contains a valuable
glossarial index. )
III. SEPARATE WORKS
The Memoirs of a Protestant, condemned to the Galleys of France, for his
Religion. Written by Himself . . . . Translated from the Original, just
published at the Hague, by Willington, James. 2 vols. 1758. Reprint
published in 1895, with introduction by Dobson, A. , and facsimile of
Goldsmith's receipt to Edward Dilly.
An Enquiry into the present state of Polite Learning in Europe. 1759.
2nd edn, 'revised and corrected,' 1774. (In this edn much is omitted,
including the verses from Macrobius (Prologue of Laberius). )
The Bee. 6 October to 24 November 1759. Issued in a volume, December
1759. Annotated edn, by Dobson, A. (Temple Classics. ) 1903.
Memoirs of M. de Voltaire. The Lady's Magazine. 1761.
The Mystery Revealed. (Pamphlet on the Cook-lane Ghost. ) 1742 (1762).
The History of Mecklenburgh. 1762.
The Art of Poetry. 2 vols. 1762. (Said to have been revised by Goldsmith
for Newbery. )
The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, residing
in London, to his Friend in the East. Appeared in The Public Ledger
as Chinese Letters from 24 January 1760 to 14 August 1761; published
in two volumes, May 1762. Separate annotated edns by Knight, Charles,
1840; and Dobson, A. (Temple Library), 2 vols. 1891; and Temple Classics,
2 vols. 1900.
Plutarch's Lives, abridged from the Greek.
By Goldsmith and Joseph
Collyer. 7 vols. 1762.
The Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esquire, 1762. 2nd edn, revised.
Same year.
An History of England in a series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son.
2 vols. 1764.
The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. Published 19 December 1764
(dated 1765). Three edns quickly followed, and a 9th was issued in
1774, the year of the author's death. (Numerous alterations were made
between the 1st and the 6th edn, of 1770. )
Essays. By Mr Goldsmith. 1765. 2nd edn, corrected, 1766.
Edwin and Angelina (The Hermit). Printed privately for the amusement of
E. L. X.
31 •
## p. 482 (#508) ############################################
482
Bibliography
the Countess of Northumberland. [1765. ] (Afterwards included in The
Vicar of Wakefield. )
The Vicar of Wakefield. 2 vols. 1766. Pub. 27 March. 2nd edn, 31 May;
3rd edn, 29 August; 4th edn, 1770; 5th edn, April 1774 (dated 1773).
(Johnson's 'exact narration' in Boswell (ed. Hill, G. B. , 1887, vol. I,
p. 416, and vol. II, p. 321), of which most other accounts are variations,
was that, some time before the publication of The Traveller in 1764,
having been applied to by Goldsmith in distress and durance, he
[Johnson) sold the MS to a bookseller for £60 (or guineas). In Charles
Welsh's life of Newbery, 1885, pp. 58-9, that writer pointed out that he
had found in some old account-books an entry showing that Goldsmith
had sold a third share of the book to Benjamin Collins, printer, of
Salisbury (who afterwards printed it), 28 October 1762, for £21. That
The Vicar was being written in 1761-2, is plain from internal evidence
(references to the musical glasses, the Auditor, etc. ); but no conclusive
solution of the apparent conflict between the two stories has yet been
propounded, although it may be a very simple one. )
A detailed bibliography of The Vicar, coming down to 1885, is prefixed
to Stock’s facsimile reprint of that date. There is also a bibliography in
the Great Writers series. Separate annotated editions were issued in
The Parchment Library, 1883, rev. 1908; by Macmillan, Michael, 1897;
and Doble, C. E. , Oxford edn, 1909.
A Concise History of Philosophy and Philosophers. Translated by Goldsmith
from the French of Formey, J. H. S. 1766.
A Short English Grammar, 1766.
Poems for Young Ladies. Collected, with Preface by Goldsmith. 1767.
Beauties of English Poesy. 2 vols. 1767.
The Good Naturd Man, a Comedy. 1768 (5 February). Produced at Covent
garden, 29 January. 5th edn. 1768.
The Roman History. 2 vols. 1769. Abridged by the author for the use of
schools, 1772.
The Deserted Village. Published 26 May 1770. Four more edns in the same
year.
The Life of Thomas Parnell. 1770. Also prefixed to Parnell's Works, same
year.
The Life of Henry St John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. 1770. (Originally
prefixed to Bolingbroke's Dissertation on Parties. )
The History of England. 4 vols. 1771.
Threnodia Augustalis. Monody on the Death of the Princess Dowager of
Wales. 1772.
She Stoops to Conquer, a Comedy. 1773 (26 March). Produced at Covent
garden, 15 March.
[For a Song by Dr Goldsmith, originally intended to be sung by Miss
Hardcastle in this comedy, see a letter by James Boswell in The London
Magazine for June 1774. ]
Retaliation, a Poem, 1774 (19 April). 2nd edn, with "explanatory notes,'
same year. Fifth edn, 1774, with supplementary epitaph on Caleb White-
foord. To an 8th edn, 1777, other poems were added, together with a
life varied from Glorer's Anecdotes, Annual Register, 1774, pp. 29-34.
An History of the Earth and Animated Nature. 8 vols. 1774.
The Haunch of Venison, a poetical epistle to Lord Clare. 1776. (Contains
H. W. Bunbury's portrait. )
A Survey of Experimental Philosophy. 2 vols. 1776.
The Comic Romance of Monsieur Scarron. 2 vols. [1780. ] Translation
attributed to Goldsmith.
6
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Chapter IX
483
IV. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
Black, W. Goldsmith. English Men of Letters. 1878.
Boswell, James. Life of Samuel Johnson, etc. 2 vols. 1791.
Cooke, W. European Magazine. 1793. Pp. 91-5, 170-4, 258-63.
Courthope, W. J. History of English Poetry. 1905. (Vol. v, pp. 209-19. )
Cox, M. F. The Country and Kindred of Oliver Goldsmith. Journal of the
National Literary Society of Ireland, 1900. (Vol. 1, pt. ii, pp. 81-111. )
1
Cumberland, Richard. Memoirs. . . written by Himself. 2 vols. 1807. (Vol. 1,
pp. 350–74. )
Davies, T. Memoirs of David Garrick. 2 vols. 1780. (Vol. 11, pp. 142-64. )
- De Quincey, Thomas. Works, 1853-60. (Vol. vi, pp. 194-233. )
Dobson, Austin. Life of Goldsmith. Great Writers, 1888. Contains three
hitherto unpublished letters; and a Bibliography by Anderson, John P.
Rev. edn, without Bibliography, New York, 1899.
Ford, E. Names and Characters in the Vicar of Wakefield. National
Review, May, 1883.
Forster, J. Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith, A Biography. 1848.
2nd edn. 2 vols. 1854. Final edn. 1877.
Article on this in Quarterly Review, vol. xcv (pp. 394-448).
Forsyth, W. Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century, etc. 1871.
(Chap. x. )
Glover, William. Anecdotes of the late Dr Goldsmith. Annual Register,
1774. (Pp. 29-34. )
Hawes, W. An Account of the late Dr Goldsmith's Illness, etc. 1774.
4th edn. 1780.
Hawkins, Sir John. Life of Samuel Johnson. 1787. Pp. 416-21.
