 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...one day at dinner in the St. James's Coffee-house. Garrick's couplet ran thus : — " Here lies poet Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll." And certainly in the reply poor Garrick suffers for his unkindness ; for never with so light but so... | |
 | James Whiteside - Authors, English - 1862 - 100 pages
...settled in London and directed * Garrick composed, in merriment, this amusing epitaph on Goldsmith: " Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, but talk'd like poor Poll." This led to " The Retaliation," Goldsmith's last poem, in which he sketched... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 pages
...was written by Garrick, and has been preserved, very probably, by its pungency : — "Here lies poet Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor poll." Goldsmith did not relish the sarcasm, especially as coming from such a quarter. He was not very ready... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...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. JOHNSON to Boswell, July 5th, 1774. 2 ' When Burke was told [of Goldsmith's death] he burst... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1865 - 80 pages
...epitaph for Goldsmith. Of these Garrick's is the only one that has been preserved : — " Here lies poet Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor PolL" Among Goldsmith's minor poetical works may be mentioned the exquisite ballad entitled The Hermit; the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Henry William Dulcken - English poetry - 1865 - 410 pages
...Johnson. " But," added the same honest friend, pronouncing a verdict which a century has since endorsed, " let not his failings be remembered — he was a very great man ! " xx THE CHAPTER I. The defcription of the family uj JT'ahtJield, in which n hindred lihenefe prevails... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1867 - 334 pages
...re-enter it that day.... squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his failings be remembered; he was a very great man." — Dn. JOHNSON to Boswell, July 5(A, 1774. " The stair-case of Brick Court is said to have been filled... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1868 - 510 pages
...immediately saying " that his epitaph was finished," and then at once saluted the confounded poet with — " Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,...Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll." It is probable that the " point " of this epitaph was in Garrick's head before, and that he merely... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1868 - 710 pages
...la ; His farces arc physic ; his physic a farce is ;' and that immortal one on poor Goldsmith — ' Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll;...Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll' Happiest of epigrams, since it proYoked the glorious ' Retaliation/ which gives the most accurate view... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1868 - 438 pages
...epitaphs upon him; of which Garrick's, the only one preserved, is perhaps a mild specimen: "Here lies poet Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll." This is the latest tribute offered to the man whose life had been one struggle for social estimation!... | |
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Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll. 
