The Works of Oliver Goldsmith

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886. Excerpt: ... "Pomp, cumbrous." ii. 35, 1. 66. Pomp and power, ii. 98, 1. 6. Pompadour, Madame de, iii. 28, iv. 464; and Voltaire, iv. 39. "Pomposo " = Dr. Johnson, ii. 474 n. Pont-neuf, the, school of music, i. 388. Poor, the, ii. 314, 426, iii. 271, 341, v. 205, 359, 362; affecting the manners of the rich, ii. 395; bounty to, ii. 102,1. 143; cala-mities of, iii. 134; in the clothes of their betters, v. 253; dis-tresses of, iii. 428; their happi-ness is ignorance, iii. 307; helping the, v. 395; laws op-pressive to, iii. 299; the mise-ries of, i. 211; monarchy the best government for, i. 167; provision for, iii. 96; put on appearances, i. 107; religion most needed by, ii. 425; send-ing them to America, iii. 64; serving the, ii. 355; in society, i. 261; struggles of, iii. 244; the poor man in heaven, i. 210; better be poor than seem poor, ii. 343, 348; but not modest, i. 294; relations and guests, and how to get rid of them, i. 72; the cow and, v. 212; and the hospitals, v. 176 n.; and luxury, iii. 43 n.; and the rich, i. 150, 210, 281, ii. 18, 1. 386, v. 214; combinations of rich and poor advisable, i. 119; and the Vicar, i. 79, 187. See also under Beggars, Houseless, Luxury, Rich, &c &c "Poor Poll," epitaph on Gold-smith, several versions and ac-counts of, ii. 51 n. "Poor's decay, the," ii. 41, 1. 266. Pope, the, ii. 411. Pope, A., ii. 389, iii. 49, 202 n., iv. 27, 160, 164, 173, 366, 418, v. 346; criticised, i. 130; de-fence of, iv. 295; quoted, i. 257, iii. 220; his inscription on the Bath obelisk, iv. Ill; Bo-lingbroke's works burnt by him, iv. 227 n.; his want of candour and sincerity, iv. 169; his Correspondence, contradiction in, see under Gay quoted: his 'Eloisa to Abelard, ' v. 156; his epigram on Ralph Allen, iv. 106 n.; his letters to Beau Nash, iv. 109; his ...