Название: The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith
Автор: Оливер Голдсмит
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1766 | December 28. English Grammar written. |
1767 | April. Beauties of English Poesy published. July 19. Living in Garden Court, Temple. July 25. Letter to the St. James's Chronicle. December 22. Death of John Newbery. |
1768 | February 5. Publishes The Good Natur'd Man, a Comedy, produced at Covent Garden, January 29. 'Epilogue to The Good Natur'd Man.' Moves to 2 Brick Court, Middle Temple. May. Death of Henry Goldsmith. Living at Edgware. |
1769 | February 18. 'Epilogue to Mrs. Lenox's Sister.' February 29. Agreement for 'a new Natural History of Animals' (Animated Nature). May 18. Roman History published. June 13. Agreement for History of England. December. Appointed Professor of History to the Royal Academy. |
1770 | January. Letter to Maurice Goldsmith. April 24-May 26. Portrait by Reynolds exhibited. May 26. The Deserted Village published. July 13. Life of Thomas Parnell published. July. On the Continent with the Hornecks. Letters to Reynolds. September 15. Agreement for abridgement of Roman History. December 1. Marchi's print from Reynold's portrait published. December 19. Life of Bolingbroke published. Vicar of Wakefield, 4th edition. |
1771 | Haunch of Venison written. (?) August 6. History of England published. December 11. 'Prologue to Cradock's Zobeide.' |
1772 | February 20. Threnodia Augustalis published. Watson's Engraving of Resignation published. December. Abridgement of Roman History published. |
1773 | March 26. Publishes She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night, a Comedy, produced at Covent Garden, March 15. 'Song in She Stoops to Conquer,' 'Epilogue to She Stoops to Conquer.' |
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1773 | March 24. Kenrick's libel in the London Packet. March 31. Letter in the Daily Advertiser. May 8. The Grumbler produced. Projects a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. |
1774 | March 25. Illness. April 4. Death. April 9. 'Buried 9th April, Oliver Goldsmith, MB, late of Brick-court, Middle Temple' (Register of Burials, Temple Church). April 19. Retaliation published. April. Vicar of Wakefield, 5th edition (dated 1773). June. Song ('Ah me, when shall I marry me?') published. June 28. Letters of Administration granted. June. An History of the Earth and Animated Nature published. 'Translation from Addison.' (History, etc., 1774.) |
1776 | The Haunch of Venison published. 'Epitaph on Thomas Parnell,' and 'Two Songs from The Captivity (Haunch of Venison). Monument with medallion by Nollekens erected in the south transept of Westminster Abbey. |
1777 | Poems and Plays published. 'The Clown's Reply,' 'Epitaph on Edward Purdon' (Poems, etc., 1777). |
1779 | Vicar of Wakefield, 6th edition. |
1780 | Poetical and Dramatic Works, Evans's edition, published. 'Epilogue for Lee Lewes' (Poetical, etc., Works, 1780). |
1801 | Miscellaneous Works, Percy's edition, published. 'Epilogues (unspoken) to She Stoops to Conquer' (Misc. Works, 1801). |
1820 | Miscellaneous Works, 'trade' edition, published. An Oratorio' (The Captivity). (Misc. Works, 1820.) |
1837 | Miscellaneous Works, Prior's edition, published. 'Verses in Reply to an Invitation to Dinner'; 'Letter in Prose and Verse to Mrs. Bunbury' (Misc. Works, 1837). Tablet erected in the Temple Church. |
1854 | Goldsmith's Works, Cunningham's edition, published. 'Translation of Vida's Game of Chess' (Works, 1854, vol. iv). |
1864 | January 5. J. H. Foley's statue placed in front of Dublin University. |
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DESCRIPTIVE POEMS
THE TRAVELLER
OR
A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY
DEDICATION TO THE REV. HENRY GOLDSMITH
DEAR SIR,
I am sensible that the friendship between us can acquire no new force from the ceremonies of a Dedication; and perhaps it demands an excuse thus to prefix your СКАЧАТЬ