Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light, each borrow’d grace, From him I’ll learn to write; Copy his clear, familiar style, And from the roughness of his file Grow like himself—polite. (Northcote’s _Life of Reynolds_, 2nd ed., 1819, i. 221.) According to Cumberland (_Memoirs_, 1807, i. 370), ‘The dean also gave him [Goldsmith] an epitaph, and Sir Joshua illuminated the dean’s verses with a sketch of his bust in pen and ink inimitably caricatured.’ What would collectors give for that sketch and epitaph! Unfortunately in Cumberland’s septuagenarian recollections the ‘truth severe’ is mingled with an unusual amount of ‘fairy fiction.’ However Sir Joshua _did_ draw caricatures, for a number of them were exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery (by the Duke of Devonshire) in the winter of 1883–4. Our Burke. The Right Hon. Edmund Burke, 1729–97. Our Will. ‘Mr. William Burke, late Secretary to General Conway, and member for Bedwin, Wiltshire’ (Note to second edition). He was a kinsman of Edmund Burke, and one of the supposed authors of Junius’s _ Letters_. He died in 1798. ‘It is said that the notices Goldsmith first wrote of the Burkes were so severe that Hugh Boyd persuaded the poet to alter them, and entirely rewrite the character of William, for he was sure that if the Burkes saw what was originally written of them the peace of the Club would be disturbed.’ (Rev. W. Hunt in _Dict. Nat. Biography_, Art. ‘William Burke.’) And Dick. Richard Burke, Edmund Burke’s younger brother. He was for some years Collector to the Customs at Grenada, being on a visit to London when _Retaliation_ was written (Forster’s _ Life_, 1871, ii. 404). He died in 1794, Recorder of Bristol. Our Cumberland’s sweetbread. Richard Cumberland, the poet, novelist, and dramatist, 1731–1811, author of _The West Indian_, 1771, _The Fashionable Lover_, 1772, and many other more or less sentimental plays. In his _Memoirs_, 1807, i. 369–71, he gives an account of the origin of _ Retaliation_, which adds a few dubious particulars to that of Garrick. But it was written from memory long after the events it records. Douglas. ‘Dr. Douglas, since Bishop of Salisbury,’ says Cumberland. He died in 1807 (_v. infra_). Ridge. ‘Counsellor John Ridge, a gentleman belonging to the Irish Bar’ (Note to second edition). ‘Burke,’ says Bolton Corney, ‘in 1771, described him as “one of the honestest and best-natured men living, and inferior to none of his profession in ability.”’ (See also note to line 125.)