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Three Cranes, destroyed in the Great Fire, but rebuilt and noticed in 1698, in one of the many paper controversies of that day. A fulminating pamphlet, entitled
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Ecclesia et Factio: a Dialogue between Bow Church Steeple and the Exchange Grasshopper, elicited
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An Answer to the Dragon and Grasshopper; in a Dialogue between an Old Monkey and a Young Weasel, at the Three Cranes Tavern, in the Poultry.
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as he was called, because he bore Johnson's hardest blows without flinching, held out boldly for unlimited toleration; Johnson for Baxter's principle of only
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which is no toleration at all. Goldsmith, unable to get a word in, and overpowered by the voice of the great Polyphemus, grew at last vexed, and said petulantly to Johnson, who he thought had interrupted poor Toplady,
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Sir, the gentleman has heard you patiently for an hour; pray allow us now to hear him. Johnson replied, sternly,
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Sir, I was not interrupting the gentleman; I was only giving him a signal proof of my attention. Sir, you are impertinent.
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I'll make Goldsmith forgive me. Then calling to the poet, in a loud voice he said,
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Dr. Goldsmith, something passed to-day where you and I dined; I ask your pardon.
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It must be much from you, sir, that I take ill --became himself,
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Would Goldy have rattled away so had he known what Johnson, Boswell, and Langton had said about him as they walked up Cheapside? Langton had observed that the poet was not like Addison, who, content with his fame as a writer, did not attempt a share in conversation; to which Boswell added, that Goldsmith had a great deal of gold in his cabinet, but, not content with that, was always pulling out his purse.
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Yes, sir, struck in Johnson,
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Jack Wilkes. To Boswell's horror, when he went to fetch Johnson, he found him covered with dust, and buffeting some books, having forgotten all about the dinner party. A little coaxing, however, soon won him over; Johnson roared out,
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Frank, a clean shirt! and was soon packed into a hackney coach. On discovering