Essays

About this eBook

Author

Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774

Title

Goldsmith's essays

Original Publication

London: John Sharpe, 1819.

Credits

Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English essays -- 18th century

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 79560

Release Date

September 12, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.GOLDSMITH’S ESSAYS.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.ESSAYS. — I. DESCRIPTION OF VARIOUS CLUBS.
5. 5.II. SPECIMEN OF A MAGAZINE IN MINIATURE. — A Modest Address to the Public. — Dedication to that most ingenious of all Patrons, the Tripoline Ambassador. — A Speech spoken by the Indigent Philosopher to persuade his Club at Cateaton to declare War against Spain. — Rules for Behaviour, drawn up by the Indigent Philosopher. — Rules for raising the Devil. Translated from the Latin of Danæus de Sortiariis, a Writer contemporary with Calvin, and one of the Reformers of our Church.
6. 6.III. ASEM, AN EASTERN TALE.
7. 7.IV. ON THE ENGLISH CLERGY, AND POPULAR PREACHERS.
8. 8.V. A REVERIE AT THE BOAR’S-HEAD TAVERN, EASTCHEAP.
9. 9.VI. ADVENTURES OF A STROLLING PLAYER.
10. 10.VII. RULES ENJOINED TO BE OBSERVED AT A RUSSIAN ASSEMBLY.
11. 11.VIII. BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR, SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY THE ORDINARY OF NEWGATE.
12. 12.IX. ON NATIONAL CONCORD.
13. 13.X. FEMALE WARRIORS. — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.XI. ON NATIONAL PREJUDICE.
15. 15.XII. ON TASTE.
16. 16.XIII. CULTIVATION OF TASTE. — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.XIV. ORIGIN OF POETRY. — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.XV. POETRY DISTINGUISHED FROM OTHER WRITING. — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.XVI. ON METAPHOR. — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.XVII. ON HYPERBOLE. — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.XVIII. ON VERSIFICATION.
22. 22.XIX. SCHOOLS OF MUSIC, OBJECTIONS THERETO, AND ANSWERS. — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.XX. ON CAROLAN, THE IRISH BARD.
24. 24.XXI. ON THE TENANTS OF THE LEASOWES. — FOOTNOTES:
25. 25.XXII. ON SENTIMENTAL COMEDY. — FOOTNOTES:
26. 26.XXIII. SCOTCH MARRIAGES.
27. 27.XXIV. ON THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE.
28. 28.INDEX.

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