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Are these the choice dishes the Doctor has sent us? Is this the great poet whose works so content us? This Goldsmith's fine feast, who has written fine books? Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks?
Are these the choice dishes the Doctor has sent us? Is this the great poet whose works so content us? This Goldsmith's fine feast, who has written fine books? Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks?
Approximate author period: c. 1747 AD · early modern
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- David Garrick
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- Approximate author period: c. 1747 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Epigram on Goldsmith's Retaliation. Vol. ii. p. 157.
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