oom, and
did not re-enter it that day....

"The staircase of Brick Court is said to have been filled with
mourners, the reverse of domestic; women without a home, without
domesticity of any kind, with no friend but him they had come to
weep for; outcasts of that great, solitary, wicked city, to whom he
had never forgotten to be kind and charitable. And he had domestic
mourners, too. His coffin was reopened at the request of Miss
Horneck and her sister (such was the regard he was known to have for
them!) that a lock might be cut from his hair. It was in Mrs. Gwyn's
possession when she died, after nearly seventy years."--FORSTER'S
_Goldsmith_.

185 "Goldsmith's incessant desire of being conspicuous in company was
the occasion of his sometimes appearing to such disadvantage, as one
should hardly have supposed possible in a man of his genius. When
his literary reputation had risen deservedly high, and his society
was much courted, he became very jealous of the extraordinary
attention which was everywhere paid to Johnson. One evening, in a
circle of wits, he found fault with me for talking of Johnson as
entitled to the honour of unquestionable superiority. 'Sir,' said
he, 'you are for making a monarchy of what should be a republic.'

"He was still more mortified, when, talking in a company with fluent
vivacity, and, as he flattered himself, to the admiration of all
present, a German who sat next him, and perceived Johnson rolling
himself as if about to speak, suddenly stopped him, saying, 'Stay,
stay--Toctor Shonson is going to zay zomething.' This was no doubt
very provoking, especially to one so irritable as Goldsmith, who
frequently mentioned it with strong expressions of indignation.

"It may also be observed that Goldsmith was sometimes content to be
treated with an easy familiarity, but upon occasions would be
consequential and important. An instance of this occurred in a small
particular. Johnson had a way of contracting the names of his
friends, as Beauclerk, Beau; Boswell, Bozzy.... I remember one day,
when Tom Davies was telling that Dr. Johnson said--'We are all in
labour for a name to _Goldy's_ play,' Goldsmith seemed displeased
that such a liberty should be taken with his name, and said, 'I have
often