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The Poet frequented much the Grecian Coffee-house, then the favourite resort of the Irish and Lancashire Templars; and delighted in collecting around him his friends, whom he entertained with a cordial and unostentatious hospitality. Occasionally he amused them with his flute or with whist, neither of which he played well, particularly the latter, but in losing his money, he never lost his temper. In a run of bad luck and worse play, he would fling his cards on the floor and exclaim, ‘Bye-fore George I ought for ever to renounce thee, fickle, faithless Fortune!’
In Temple Scott, Oliver Goldsmith, Bibliographically and Biographically Considered (New York: Bowling Green Press; London: Maggs Brothers, 1928) pp. 274–7. Editor’s title.
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Day, R. (1993). Goldsmith at the Temple. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Goldsmith. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23093-8_15
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