...complained of Lord Camden : ' I met him,' he said, ' at Lord Clare's house, in the country, and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man.'73 In reciting verses, he was very vain of his harmonious voice and correct judgment. I was (says...

...instance he thought the dignity of literature itself involved in this question. " Nay, gentlemen," roared he, " Dr. Goldsmith is in the right. A nobleman ought to have made up to such a man as Goldsmith, aud I think it is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him." After Goldsmith's return to town...

...mixed company, of Lord Camden. " I met him," he said, " at Lord " Clare's house in the country ; and he took no more notice " of me than if I had been an ordinary man." At this, according to Boswell, himself and the company laughed heartily; whercupon Johnson stood forth...

...mixed company, of Lord Camden. ' Imet him,' said he, ' at Lord Clare's house in the country, and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary...is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him.' " k — However, we learn likewise from the inimitable Boswell, that Lord Camden was on a footing of...

...town at a party of his friends. "I met him," said he, "at Lord Clare's house in the country; and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man." a The company," says Boswell, u laughed heartily at this piece of ' diverting simplicity.3 " And foremost...

...mixed company, of Lord Camden. «I met him,' said he, « at Lord Clare's house in the country, and he *took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary...is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him.' . Of Dr. Goldsmith he said,«No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise...

...mixed company, of Lord Camden. " I met him," said he, " at Lord Clare's house in the country, and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary...is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him." Nor could he patiently endure to hear, that such respect as he thought due only to higher intellectual...

...town at a party of his friends. "I met him," said he, " at Lord Clare's house in the country ; and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary man." " The company," says Boswell, " laughed heartily at this piece of ' diverting simplicity.' " And foremost among the...

...mixed company, of Lord Camden. ' I met him," said he, 'at Lord Clare's house in the country, and he took no more notice of me than if I had been an ordinary...is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him.' Of Dr. Goldsmith he said, 'No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise...

...dignity of literature itself involved in the question. " Nay, gentlemen," roared he, " Dr. Goldsmifh is in the right. A nobleman ought to have made up...is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him." After Goldsmith's return to town he received from Lord Clare a present of game, which he has celebrated...