...Lord North's administration. Goldsmith's noble answer, as reported by his reverend friend, was — ' I can earn as much as will supply my wants without writing for any party ; the assistance therefore you offer is unnecessary to me." (Life, 1837, ii. 278.) There is a caricature portrait of...

...I told him my authority; I told him that I was empowered to pay most liberally for his exertions ; and, would you believe it? he was so absurd as to...me." And so I left him, added the reverend doctor with indignant scorn, * in his garret!' " It would seem a paradox to say that we owe The Haunch of...

...sufficiently good for Goldsmith to say, in reply to the' temptations of an emissary of Lord Sandwich, " I can earn as much as will supply my wants without writing for any party."1 It was his love of gambling and his extravagance in living in society beyond his means that...

...sufficiently good for Goldsmith to be able to reply to the temptations of an emissary of Lord Sandwich : ' I can earn as much as will supply my wants without writing for any party.' Literature was established as a self-supporting profession, and the advice of Johnson to the many literary...

...sufficiently good for Goldsmith to be able to reply to the temptations of an emissary of Lord Sandwich : ' I can earn as much as will supply my wants without writing for any party.' Literature was established as a self-supporting profession, and the advice of Johnson to the many literary...