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Article ANECDOTES OF DR. GOLDSMITH. ← Page 5 of 6 →
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Anecdotes Of Dr. Goldsmith.
before the company broke up , Lloyd went put of the room , and , in a few minutes afterwards , his voice was heard rather loud in the adjoining passage in conversation with the master of the house . Goldsmith immediately flew to his new friend , to enquire what was the matter , when Lloyd , with great sang froid , replied , Oh ! at allbut that this cautious gentleman here has
" nothing , very refused my note on demand for the contents of the reckoning . "—¦ " You forget at the . same time , " says the other , " to tell Dr .. Goldsmith that you owe me between fourteen and fifteen pounds already , which I can ' t get a farthing of ; and since you have thought proper to explain matters so publicly , I now tell jrou , I will neither take your word nor 3-our note for the reckoning
?"—"Pho ! p ho ! " says Goldsmith , " my dear boy , let ' s have no more words about the matter , ' tis not the first time a gentleman has wanted cash ; will you accept my word for the reckoning . "— - " Most certainly , Doctor , and for as much more as you like . " " Why then , " says Lloyd , whispering to the master , and . forgetting all animosities , " send- in another cast of wine , and add it to the bill . "
¦ The wine was accordingly sent in—the Doctor pledged his word for the reckoning , and in a few weeks afterwards paid it , without ever hearino- any thing more about it from Lloyd , who , upon this and similar occasions , had a very short memory . ¦ Soon after the publication of his " Traveller" he removed from Wine-Office-Court to the Library Staircase , Inner-Temple , and at the same time took a country-housein conjunction with Mr .
, Bot , an intimate literary friend of his , on the Edgeware-road , at the back ofrtfsCannons . " This place he jocularly called , " Shoemaker ' s Paradise , " being originally built by one of the craft , who kid out somewhat less than half an acre , with a small house , two rooms on a floor , with flying Mercuries , jettes d ' eau ' s , and all the false taste which Mr . Murphy so happily ridicules in his farce
of " Three Weeks After Marriage . " Here he wrote his " History of England , in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son , " a work generally attributed to George Lord Lyttelton , and what is rather singular , never contradicted ; either " directly or indirectly , by that Nobleman or any of his friends . This book had a very rapid sale , went throughmany editions in the Author ' s life-time , and ' continues to be esteemed one ofthe most useful introductions , of that sort , to the .
study of our history . His manner of compiling this History was as follows : —he first read in a morning from Hume , Rapin , and sometimes Kennet , as much as he designed for one letter , marking down the passages referred to on a sheet of paper , with remarks . Pie then rode or walked out with a friend or- two , who he constantly had with him , returned to dinner , spent the day generally convivially , without much drinking ( which he was never in the habit of ) , and Tt
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Anecdotes Of Dr. Goldsmith.
before the company broke up , Lloyd went put of the room , and , in a few minutes afterwards , his voice was heard rather loud in the adjoining passage in conversation with the master of the house . Goldsmith immediately flew to his new friend , to enquire what was the matter , when Lloyd , with great sang froid , replied , Oh ! at allbut that this cautious gentleman here has
" nothing , very refused my note on demand for the contents of the reckoning . "—¦ " You forget at the . same time , " says the other , " to tell Dr .. Goldsmith that you owe me between fourteen and fifteen pounds already , which I can ' t get a farthing of ; and since you have thought proper to explain matters so publicly , I now tell jrou , I will neither take your word nor 3-our note for the reckoning
?"—"Pho ! p ho ! " says Goldsmith , " my dear boy , let ' s have no more words about the matter , ' tis not the first time a gentleman has wanted cash ; will you accept my word for the reckoning . "— - " Most certainly , Doctor , and for as much more as you like . " " Why then , " says Lloyd , whispering to the master , and . forgetting all animosities , " send- in another cast of wine , and add it to the bill . "
¦ The wine was accordingly sent in—the Doctor pledged his word for the reckoning , and in a few weeks afterwards paid it , without ever hearino- any thing more about it from Lloyd , who , upon this and similar occasions , had a very short memory . ¦ Soon after the publication of his " Traveller" he removed from Wine-Office-Court to the Library Staircase , Inner-Temple , and at the same time took a country-housein conjunction with Mr .
, Bot , an intimate literary friend of his , on the Edgeware-road , at the back ofrtfsCannons . " This place he jocularly called , " Shoemaker ' s Paradise , " being originally built by one of the craft , who kid out somewhat less than half an acre , with a small house , two rooms on a floor , with flying Mercuries , jettes d ' eau ' s , and all the false taste which Mr . Murphy so happily ridicules in his farce
of " Three Weeks After Marriage . " Here he wrote his " History of England , in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son , " a work generally attributed to George Lord Lyttelton , and what is rather singular , never contradicted ; either " directly or indirectly , by that Nobleman or any of his friends . This book had a very rapid sale , went throughmany editions in the Author ' s life-time , and ' continues to be esteemed one ofthe most useful introductions , of that sort , to the .
study of our history . His manner of compiling this History was as follows : —he first read in a morning from Hume , Rapin , and sometimes Kennet , as much as he designed for one letter , marking down the passages referred to on a sheet of paper , with remarks . Pie then rode or walked out with a friend or- two , who he constantly had with him , returned to dinner , spent the day generally convivially , without much drinking ( which he was never in the habit of ) , and Tt