Dr. Goldsmith's cast of countenance, and indeed his
whole figure from head to foot, impressed every one at
first sight with an idea of his being a low mechanic ;
particularly, I believe, a journeyman tailor. A little
concurring instance of this I well remember. One day
at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, in company with some gentle-
men and ladies, he was relating with great indignation
an insult he had just received from some gentleman he
had accidentally met (I think at a cofiee-house). '*' The
fellow," he said, **^took me for a tailor !" on which all

(1) Mrs. Cbolmondeley. — Reynolds.
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the party either laughed aloud or showed they suppressed
a laugh.
Dr. Johnson seemed to have much more kindness for
Groldsmith^ than Goldsmith had for him. He always
appeared to he overawed by Johnson, particularly when
in company with people of any consequence, always as
if impressed with some fear of disgrace ; and, indeed,
well he might. I have been witness to many mortifica-
tions he has suffered in Dr. Johnson's company : one
day in particular, at Sir Joshua's table, a gentleman to
whom he was talking his best stopped him, in the midst
of his discourse, with '^ Hush ! hush ! Dr. Johnson is
going to say something."

At another time, a gentleman who was sitting between
Dr. Johnson and Dr. Goldsmith, and with whom he had
been disputing, remarked to another, loud enough for
Goldsmith to hear him, " That he had a fine time of
it, between Ursa major and Ursa minor I" Q)

330. Talking one^s hesU
Mr. Baretti used to remark, with a smile, that Dr.
