Life of Johnson.
being mentioned; Johnson, “ It is amazing how little Goldsmith knows. He seldom comes where he is not more ignorant than any one else.” Sir Joshua Reynolds, “Yet there is no man whose company is more liked.” Johnson, “To be sure. Sir. When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer, their inferiour while he is with ♦ hem, it must be highly gratifying to them. What Goldsmith comically says of himself is very true,—he always gets the better when he argues alone; meaning, that he is marter of a subject in his study, and can write well upon it; but when he comes into company, grows confused, and unable to talk.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20285, 20 April 1934, Page 6
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