...distress. He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his failings be remembered ; he was a very great man." — Dr. JOHNSOV to liosweli, July uth, 1774. which were his, and passed up the stairease, which Johuson,...

...over hans Ded. Af disse Impromptuer er kun eet blevet bevaret, ncmlig Garricks, hvilket led saaledes: «Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called...wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll.» Da Goldsmith naeste Gang kom i Klubben. bleve Epigrammerne oplaeste for ham. Han svarede ikke paa Stedet,...

...Gan-ick immediately declared that his was ready, and he spoke the following couplet extempore: — " Here lies Nolly Goldsmith — for shortness called Noll — Who wrote like an angel, and talked like poor Poll." The company laughed heartily, but Goldsmith grew thoughtful, and declined...

...desert his studio, on hearing of his death, and prompted Johnson to say to the recording Boswell: " Let not his failings be remembered ; he was a very great man ;" which crowded his staircase in the Temple with weeping outcasts, while the coffin was re-opened...

...conversation. Goldsmith was not the only imaginative writer of whom it might have been truly said : ' Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talked like poor Poll.' The substitution of words for images, as the matter of thought gives also...

...and Goldsmith at each other in epitaph-writing, at one of their dinners, and the former wrote : — " Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called '...Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll." The good-natured but unfortunate author wrote in reply a series of quaint epitaphs on his friends of...

...and many other plays. He is referred to by Goldsmith in Retaliation^ CXLVIII. ON OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,...Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll. David Garrick. [This was written by Garrick one day in 1774 at the St. James's Coffee House, as his...

...and Goldsmith at each other in epitaph-writing, at one of their dinners, and the former wrote : — " Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called '...Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll." The good-natured but unfortunate author wrote in reply a series of quaint epitaphs on his friends of...

...desert his studio, on hearing of his death, and prompted Johnson to say to the recording Boswell: " Let not his failings be remembered ; he was a very great man ;" which crowded his staircase in the Temple with weeping outcasts, while the coffin was re-opened...

...James's Coffee-House to write each other's epitaph. Garrick's well-known couplet was instantly produced : "Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, • Who wrote like an angel, hut talked like poor Poll." Goldsmith, according to Garrick, either would not or could not retort at...