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A compiled volume assembles the author's dramas, prose narratives, poems, and miscellaneous verses with full tables of contents, chapter breakdowns, and pagination to aid navigation. It enumerates acts and scenes for plays, chapters and episode summaries for prose tales, and line listings for major poems, alongside smaller lyrical pieces, epilogues, and translations. Illustrations, brief notes, and indices accompany the listings to clarify editions and structure, making the collection a practical roadmap to the author’s varied theatrical, poetic, and prose output.

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Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

Editor: David Widger

Release date: October 5, 2018 [eBook #58029]
Most recently updated: January 13, 2023

Language: English

Credits: Produced by David Widger

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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG
WORKS OF

OLIVER GOLDSMITH



Compiled by David Widger






CONTENTS

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table of contents for each of the twelve volumes.

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##  SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER

##  THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD

##  THE HISTORY OF ROME

DEATH OF A MAD DOG

ELEGY ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX

##  DALZIELS' ILLUSTRATED GOLDSMITH

##  THE POEMS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH

##  THE DESERTED VILLAGE

##  COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH







TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES





"SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER"

By Oliver Goldsmith



CONTENTS

PROLOGUE,

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

ACT THE FIRST.

ACT THE SECOND.

ACT THE THIRD.

ACT THE FOURTH.

ACT THE FIFTH.





THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD

A TALE

By Oliver Goldsmith



CONTENTS


ADVERTISEMENT

CHAPTER 1 -- The description of the family of Wakefield; in which a kindred likeness prevails as well of minds as of persons

CHAPTER 2 -- Family misfortunes. The loss of fortune only serves to encrease the pride of the worthy

CHAPTER 3 -- A migration. The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own procuring

CHAPTER 4 -- A proof that even the humblest fortune may grant happiness, which depends not on circumstance, but constitution

CHAPTER 5 -- A new and great acquaintance introduced. What we place most hopes upon, generally proves most fatal

CHAPTER 6 -- The happiness of a country fire-side

CHAPTER 7 -- A town wit described. The dullest fellows may learn to be comical for a night or two

CHAPTER 8 -- An amour, which promises little good fortune, yet may be productive of much

CHAPTER 9 -- Two ladies of great distinction introduced. Superior finery ever seems to confer superior breeding

CHAPTER 10 -- The family endeavours to cope with their betters. The miseries of the poor when they attempt to appear above their circumstances

CHAPTER 11 -- The family still resolve to hold up their heads

CHAPTER 12 -- Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of Wakefield. Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities

CHAPTER 13 -- Mr Burchell is found to be an enemy; for he has the confidence to give disagreeable advice

CHAPTER 14 -- Fresh mortifications, or a demonstration that seeming calamities may be real blessings

CHAPTER 15 -- All, Mr Burchell's villainy at once detected. The folly of being over-wise

CHAPTER 16 -- The family use art, which is opposed with, still greater

CHAPTER 17 -- Scarce any virtue found to resist the power of long and pleasing temptation

CHAPTER 18 -- The pursuit of a father to reclaim a lost child to virtue

CHAPTER 19 -- The description of a person discontented with the present government, and apprehensive of the loss of our liberties

CHAPTER 20 -- The history of a philosophic vagabond, pursuing novelty, but losing content

CHAPTER 21 -- The short continuance of friendship amongst the vicious, which is coeval only with mutual satisfaction

CHAPTER 22 -- Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at bottom

CHAPTER 23 -- None but the guilty can be long and completely miserable

CHAPTER 24 -- Fresh calamities

CHAPTER 25 -- No situation, however wretched it seems, but has some sort of comfort attending it

CHAPTER 26 -- A reformation in the gaol. To make laws complete, they should reward as well as punish

CHAPTER 27 -- The same subject continued

CHAPTER 28 -- Happiness and misery rather the result of prudence than of virtue in this life. Temporal evils or felicities being regarded by heaven as things merely in themselves trifling and unworthy its care in the distribution

CHAPTER 29 -- The equal dealings of providence demonstrated with regard to the happy and the miserable here below. That from the nature of pleasure and pain, the wretched must be repaid the balance of their sufferings in the life hereafter

CHAPTER 30 -- Happier prospects begin to appear. Let us be inflexible, and fortune will at last change in our favour

CHAPTER 31 -- Former benevolence now repaid with unexpected interest

CHAPTER 32. -- The Conclusion





HISTORY OF ROME:

By Oliver Goldsmith




CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Geographical Outline of Italy 11
II. The Latin Language and People—Credibility of the Early History 18
III. Topography of Rome 23
IV. The Roman Constitution 30
V. The Roman Tenure of Land—Colonial Government 37
VI. The Roman Religion 39
VII. The Roman Army and Navy 43
VIII. Roman Law.—Finance 51
IX. The public Amusements and private Life of the Romans 55
X. Geography of the empire at the time of its greatest extent 59


HISTORY.


I. Of the Origin of the Romans 63
II. From the building of Rome to the death of Romulus 66
III. From the death of Romulus to the death of Numa 71
IV. From the death of Numa to the death of Tullus Hostilius 73
V. From the death of Tullus Hostilius to the death of Ancus Martius 75
VI. From the death of Ancus Martius to the death of Taiquinius Priscus 77
VII. From the death of Tarquinius Priscus to the death of Servius Tullius 80
VIII. From the death of Servius Tullius to the banishment of Tarquinius Superbus 83
IX. From the banishment of Tarquinius Superbus to the appointment of the first Dictator 88
X. From the Creation of the Dictator to the election of the Tribunes 93
XI. From the Creation of the Tribunes to the appointment of the Decemviri, viz.
Section 1.—The great Volscian war 96
—— 2.—Civil commotions on account of the Agrarian law 101
XII. From the creation of the Decemviri to the destruction of the city by the Gauls, viz.
Section 1.—Tyranny of the Decemviri 106
—— 2.—Crimes of Appius—Revolt of the army 110
—— 3.—Election of Military Tribunes— Creation of the Censorship 115
—— 4.—Siege and capture of Veii—Invasion of the Gauls 119
—— 5.—Deliverance of Rome from the Gauls 125
XIII. From the wars with the Samnites to the First Punic war, viz.
Section 1.—The Latin war 131
—— 2.—Invasion of Italy by Pyrrhus, king of Epirus 135
—— 3.—Defeat and departure of Pyrrhus 140
XIV. From the beginning of the First Punic war to the beginning of the Second, viz.
Section 1.—Causes and commencement of the war—Invasion of Africa by Regulus 144
—— 2.—Death of Regulus—Final Triumph of the Romans 149
XV. The Second Punic war, viz.
Section 1.—Commencement of the war—Hannibal's invasion of Italy 151
—— 2.—Victorious career of Hannibal 155
—— 3.—Retrieval of the Roman affairs—Invasion of Africa by Scipio—Conclusion of the war 160
XVI. Macedonian, Syrian, Third Punic, and Spanish wars 164
XVII. From the Destruction of Carthage to the end of the Sedition of the Gracchi, viz.
Section 1.—Murder of Tiberius Gracchus 170
—— 2.—Slaughter of Caius Gracchus and his adherents 174
XVIII. From the Sedition of Gracchus to the perpetual Dictatorship of Sylla, viz.
Section 1.—The Jugurthine and Social wars 178
—— 2.—The cruel massacres perpetrated by Marius and Sylla 183
XIX. From the perpetual Dictatorship of Sylla to the first Triumvirate 188
XX. From the First Triumvirate to the death of Pompey, viz.
Section 1.—Cæsar's wars in Gaul—Commencement of the Civil war 194
—— 2.—Cæsar's victorious career 199
—— 3.—The campaign in Thessaly and Epirus 204
—— 4.—The battle of Pharsalia 208
—— 5.—Death of Pompey 212
XXI. From the Destruction of the Commonwealth to the establishment of the first Emperor, Augustus, viz.
Section 1.—Cæsar's Egyptian campaign 218
—— 2.—The African campaign 223
—— 3.—Death of Cæsar 228
—— 4.—The Second Triumvirate 234
—— 5.—The Battle of Philippi 239
—— 6.—Dissensions of Antony and Augustus 244
—— 7.—The Battle of Actium 249
—— 8.—The Conquest of Egypt 255
XXII. From the accession of Augustus to the death of Domitian, viz.
Section 1.—The beneficent Administration of Augustus 262
—— 2.—Death of Augustus 267
—— 3.—The reign of Tiberius—Death of Germanicus 271
—— 4.—Death of Sejanus and Tiberius—Accession of Caligula 276
—— 5.—Extravagant cruelties of Caligula—His death 281
—— 6.—The Reign of Claudius 285
—— 7.—The reign of Nero 291
—— 8.—Death of Nero—Reigns of Galba and Otho 296
—— 9.—The reigns of Vitellius and Vespasian—The siege of Jerusalem by Titus 301
—— 10.—The Reigns of Titus and Domitian 307
—— 11.—The assassination of Domitian 312
XXIII. The Five good emperors of Rome, viz.
Section 1.—The Reigns of Nerva and Trajan 316
—— 2.—The Reign of Adrian 321
—— 3.—The Reign of Antoninus Pius 325
—— 4.—The reign of Marcus Aurelius 330
XXIV. From the accession of Commodus to the change of the seat of Government, from Rome to Constantinople, viz.
Section 1.—The Reigns of Commodus, Pertinax, and Didius 333
—— 2.—The Reigns of Severus, Caracalla, Maximus, and Heliogabalus 337
—— 3.—The reigns of Alexander, Maximin, and Gordian 342
—— 4.—The Reigns of Philip, Decius, Gallus, Valerian, Claudius, Aurelian, Tacitus, and Probus 346
—— 5.—The reigns of Carus, Carinus, Dioclesian, and Constantius—Accession of Constantine 350
—— 6.—The reign of Constantine 355
XXV. From the death of Constantine, to the reunion of the Roman empire under Theodosius the Great, viz.
Section 1.—The Reign of Constantius 358
—— 2.—The Reigns of Julian Jovian, the Valentinians, and Theodosius 365
XXVI. From the death of Theodosius to the subversion of the Western Empire, viz.
Section 1.—The division of the Roman dominions into the Eastern and Western empires 373
—— 2.—Decline and fall of the Western empire 377
XXVII. Historical notices of the different barbarous tribes that aided in overthrowing the Roman empire 385
XXVIII. The progress of Christianity 391
Chronological Index 395





DALZIELS' ILLUSTRATED GOLDSMITH

AND A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH

One Hundred Pictures Drawn By G. J. Pinwell

CONTENTS

A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH vi
THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD 1
THE TRAVELLER 175
THE DESERTED VILLAGE 189
THE HAUNCH OF VENISON 202
THE CAPTIVITY 205
RETALIATION 212
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS 225
THE GOOD-NATURED MAN 266
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER 361



THE POEMS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Illustrations By Birket Foster And H. N. Humphreys, Printed In Colours By Edmund Evans.

FOOTNOTES:

1 Miscellaneous Prose Works of Goldsmith, vol. i., p. 79.

2 "The year of Dr. Goldsmith's birth had been universally mistaken, till his family, some time after his death, furnished correct information of the circumstance."—Percy.

CONTENTS

  PAGE
The Traveller 1
The Deserted Village 29
The Hermit 57
The Captivity 67
The Haunch of Venison 85
Retaliation 91
The Double Transformation 99
The Gift to Iris 104
The Logicians Refuted 105
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog 108
Threnodia Augustalis 110
A New Simile 122
On a Beautiful Youth struck Blind by Lightning 125
Stanzas on Woman 126
Translation from Scarròn 126
Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec 127
Epitaph on Edward Purdon 128
Translation of a South American Ode 128
Epitaph on Thomas Parnell 129
Description of an Author's Bed-chamber 130
Song, from the Comedy of "She Stoops to Conquer" 131
Answer to an Invitation to Dinner. 133
Song, intended to have been sung in "She Stoops to Conquer" 135
From the Latin of Vida 135
An Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize 136
Answer to an Invitation to pass the Christmas at Barton 138
On Seeing a Lady Perform a Certain Character 141
Birds 142
Prologue written and spoken by the Poet Laberius 143
Prologue to "Zobeide" 144
Epilogue to "The Sister" 146
Epilogue intended for "She Stoops to Conquer" 148
Another Intended Epilogue 153
Epilogue to "She Stoops to Conquer" 155
Epilogue to "The Good-natured Man" 157
On the Death of the Right Hon. —— 159
Epilogue Written for Mr. Charles Lee Lewes 163