NOTES Introduction to the Notes page 159 Editions of the Poems page 161 The Traveller page 162 The Deserted Village page 177 Prologue of Laberius page 190 On a Beautiful Youth struck Blind with Lightning page 192 The Gift page 193 The Logicians Refuted page 194 A Sonnet page 196 Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec page 196 An Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize page 197 Description of an Author's Bedchamber page 199 On seeing Mrs. *** perform in the Character of **** page 202 On the Death of the Right Hon. *** page 202 An Epigram page 203 To G. C. and R. L. page 203 Translation of a South American Ode page 203 The Double Transformation page 203 A New Simile page 205 Edwin and Angelina page 206 Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog page 212 Song (from The Vicar of Wakefield) page 213 Epilogue (The Good Natur'd Man) page 214 Epilogue (The Sister) page 215 Prologue (Zobeide) page 216 Threnodia Augustalis page 218 Song (from She Stoops to Conquer) page 219 page vi Epilogue (She Stoops to Conquer) page 220 Retaliation page 222 Song intended for She Stoops to Conquer page 235 Translation page 236 The Haunch of Venison page 236 Epitaph on Thomas Parnell page 243 The Clown's Reply page 244 Epitaph on Edward Purdon page 244 Epilogue for Lee Lewes's Benefit page 245 Epilogue (She Stoops to Conquer) (1) page 246 Epilogue (She Stoops to Conquer) (2) page 248 The Captivity page 249 Verses in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner page 250 Letter in Prose and Verse to Mrs. Bunbury page 252 Vida's Game of Chess page 255 APPENDIXES Portraits of Goldsmith page 259 Descriptions of Newell's Views of Lissoy, etc. page 262 The Epithet 'Sentimental' page 264 Fragments of Translations, etc., by Goldsmith page 266 Goldsmith on Poetry under Anne and George the First page 268 Criticisms from Goldsmith's Beauties of English Poesy page 270 page vii