Goldsmith tells us, when a lovely woman stoops to folly, shehasnothing to do but die; and when shestoopsto be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame. See Goldsmith 361:47.

-Austen,Jane
  Emma, ch.45.

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll.

-Garrick, David
  Of Oliver Goldsmith.'Impromptu Epitaph'.

But you are dull, nothing comes nimbly from you; you dance like a plumber's daughter and deserve two thousand pound in lead to your marriage, and not in goldsmith's ware.

-Middleton,Thomas
  A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (published1630), act1, sc.1.

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language: it isthe condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it. On that definition Swift ismore Irishthan Goldsmith or Sheridan, although by the usual tests they are Irish and he is pure English.

-Cruise
  Reviewing The Oxford Book of Irish Verse in the New Statesman,17  Jan (written under the pseudonym Donat O'Donnell).