1774
ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION
Oliver Goldsmith
Anonymous, "To the Author of the satirical Verses on Doctor Goldsmith's Encomiasts" Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser (15 July 1774).
Commentary for
Oliver Goldsmith:
1759: William Shenstone
1765: Anonymous
1766: Rev. Joseph Warton
1768: Frances Burney
1768: William Kenrick
1770: Corbyn Morris
1770 ca.: D. G.
1770: Thersites
1770: W. Willis
1772: Anonymous
1772: Anonymous
1773: T. S.
1773: Anonymous
1773: Orlando
1773: Anonymous
1773: Richard Fenton
1773: J.
1773: S. J.
1773: A. B.
1773: P. H. M. D.
1773: Rev. Percival Stockdale
1773: Anonymous
1773: Anonymous
1773: B. G.
1774: Horace Walpole
1774: William Woty
1774: John Tait
1774: Samuel Jackson Pratt
1774: Miss L.
1774: Richard Cumberland
1774: Anonymous
1774: Anonymous
1774: Anonymous
1774: Anonymous
1774: Cerynx
1774: David Garrick
1774: Anonymous
1774: Anonymous
1775: Robert Hill
1775: W. P.
1776 ca.: Joshua Reynolds
1778: Anonymous
1778: Anonymous
1778: M. Macgreggor, Esq.
1780: Thomas Davies
1787: A Clergyman of Ireland
1788: James Beattie
1788: Anonymous
1790: Robert Burns
1791: James Boswell
1795: Dr. Robert Anderson
1796: A Gentleman of Canada
1800: Thomas Dermody
1805: Charles Brockden Brown
1806: Dr. John Aikin
1807: Robert Southey
1807: Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges
1809: Dr. Nathan Drake
1811: Richard Cumberland
1812: William Henry Ireland
1813: Rev. William Cameron
1817: Anonymous
1818: Rev. Francis Hodgson
1820: Lord Byron
1820: Rev. John Graham
1821: Thomas Stott
1822: William Cook
1822: Tobias Oldschool
1824: William Hazlitt
1824: Bryan Waller Procter
1825 ca.: Joseph Cradock
1826: Richard Ryan
1827: William Goodhugh
1829: Anna Brownell Jameson
1830 ca.: William Roscoe
1830: Rev. George Barrell Cheever
1830: Senex
1831: John Wilson Croker
1832: John Taylor Esq.
1850: Leigh Hunt
1880: Edward Dowden
1882: Epes Sargent
Since none, when bards submit to fate,
Again to life can raise them,
Awhile, like Kings, they lie in state
For people to be-praise them.
Why, snarling critic, then severe
On poor Nol Goldsmith's puffers?
His farthing watch-light burning clear,
Why bring the candle-snuffers?
Its glimm'ring wherefore would'st prevent?
The save-all is but shallow;
Soon will the sputtering grease be spent,
And stink like common tallow.
Nol, like Dick Blackmore, famous once,
Will be as soon forgotten;
Each Doctor deemed a dismal dunce,
Before his bones be rotten!