This art is supposed to have been invented, in or about 1725, by William Ged, a goldsmith of Edinburgh.

He is mentioned by Goldsmith in his verses to the Miss Hornecks.

She told us, that there was a goldsmith at Caracarura, one William Bouchier from Paris, the son of Lawrence Bouchier, and who had a brother, Roger Bouchier, yet living upon the Great Bridge.

A writer consulted Goldsmith on what subjects he might employ his pen with most profit to himself.

The whole conception of that Dickens-like scene, in which it is described how Lady Frippery had a drum in spite of all local difficulties, is much more in the humour of Goldsmith than in that of any of Coventry's immediate contemporaries.

Sir Joshua said, "Let me present Dr. Goldsmith to you;" he did.

When the time came for settling in Paris, the King presented his goldsmith with a castle called Le Petit Nesle, and made him lord thereof by letters of naturalisation.

Ghiberti was brought up as a goldsmith by his stepfather, and it is said that while a youth he spent much of his leisure in modelling portraits and casting imitations of antique gems and coins for his friends.

Goldsmith like Steele, had the Irish reverence for pure womanhood, and this reverence made him shun as a pest the vulgarity and coarseness in which contemporary novelists, like Smollett and Sterne, seemed to delight.

115; Garrick's 'reader' of new plays, i. 402, n. 3; proposes him to Goldsmith as arbitrator, iii. 320, n. 2; grand nonsense, i. 402; Memoirs by Mason, i. 31; poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1. WHITEWAY, Mrs., i. 452, n. 2. WHITING, Mrs., iv.