NOTES Introduction to the Notes Editions of the Poems The Traveller The Deserted Village Prologue of Laberius On a Beautiful Youth struck Blind with Lightning The Gift The Logicians Refuted A Sonnet Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec An Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize Description of an Author’s Bedchamber On seeing Mrs. *** perform in the Character of **** On the Death of the Right Hon. *** An Epigram To G. C. and R. L. Translation of a South American Ode The Double Transformation A New Simile Edwin and Angelina Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog Song (from _The Vicar of Wakefield_) Epilogue (_The Good Natur’d Man_) Epilogue (_The Sister_) Prologue (_Zobeide_) Threnodia Augustalis Song (from _She Stoops to Conquer_) Epilogue (_She Stoops to Conquer_) Retaliation Song intended for _She Stoops to Conquer_ Translation The Haunch of Venison Epitaph on Thomas Parnell The Clown’s Reply Epitaph on Edward Purdon Epilogue for Lee Lewes’s Benefit Epilogue (_She Stoops to Conquer_) (1) Epilogue (_She Stoops to Conquer_) (2) The Captivity Verses in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner Letter in Prose and Verse to Mrs. Bunbury Vida’s Game of Chess APPENDIXES Portraits of Goldsmith Descriptions of Newell’s Views of Lissoy, etc. The Epithet ‘Sentimental’ Fragments of Translations, etc., by Goldsmith Goldsmith on Poetry under Anne and George the First Criticisms from Goldsmith’s _Beauties of English Poesy_ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS OLIVER GOLDSMITH. From Joseph Marchi’s mezzotint of 1770 after the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. PANE OF GLASS with Goldsmith’s autograph signature, dated March, 1746, now at Trinity College, Dublin. VIGNETTE TO THE TRAVELLER. Drawn by Samuel Wale, and engraved by Charles Grignion. HEADPIECE TO THE TRAVELLER. Engraved on wood by Charlton Nesbit for Bulmer’s _Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell_, 1795. THE TRAVELLER. From a design by Richard Westall, R. A., engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick for Bulmer’s _Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell_, 1795. VIGNETTE TO THE DESERTED VILLAGE, 1770. Drawn and engraved by Isaac Taylor. HEADPIECE TO THE DESERTED VILLAGE. Engraved on wood by Charlton Nesbit for Bulmer’s _Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell_, 1795. THE WATER-CRESS GATHERER. Drawn and engraved on wood by John Bewick for Bulmer’s _Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell_, 1795. THE DEPARTURE. Drawn by Robert Johnson, and engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick for Bulmer’s _ Poems of Goldsmith and Parnell_, 1795. EDWIN AND ANGELINA. From an original washed drawing made by Thomas Stothard, R.A., for Aikin’s _Goldsmith’s Poetical Works_, 1805. PORTRAIT OF GOLDSMITH, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. From an etching by James Basire on the title-page of _Retaliation_, 1774. SONG FROM THE CAPTIVITY. Facsimile of Goldsmith’s writing and signature, from Prior’s _ Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B._, 1837, ii, frontispiece. GREEN ARBOUR COURT, OLD BAILEY. From an engraving in the _European Magazine_ for January, 1803.