Explanatory Notes and Observations
ON
DOCTOR GOLDSMITH's POEM,
ENTITLED
RETALIATION.
" If our landlord supplies us with beef and with fish," page 1, line 3] The master of the St. James's coffee-house, where the Doctor, and the friends he has characterised in this Poem, held an occasional club.
"That Ridge is anchovy," page 6, line 10] Counsellor John Ridge, a gentleman belonging to the Irish bar, the relish of whose agreeable and pointed conversation, is admitted by all his acquaintance, to be very properly compared to the above sauce.
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