Chapter Gold of Nibelungen to Goliards of G by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Gold-purse of Spain, Andalucia, from which city Spain derives its chief wealth.

Goldsmith (Oliver).

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,
Who wrote like an angel, and talked like poor poll.
   —David Garrick.

Goldsmith (Rev.J.). one of the many pseudonyms adopted by sir Richard Phillips, in a series of school books. Some other of his false names were the Rev. David Blair, James Adair, Rev. C. Clarke, etc., with noted French names for educational French books.

Goldsmiths Monument, in West-minster Abbey, is by Nollekens.

Goldthred (Lawrence), mercer, near Cummor Place.—Sir W. Scott: Kenil-worth (time, Elizabeth).

Goldy. Oliver Goldsmith was so called by Dr. Johnson (1728–1774).

Golgotha [“the place of a skull”], a small elevated spot north-west of Jerusalem, where criminals used to be executed. In modern poetry it stands for a battle-field of place of great slaughter.

Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
Or memorize another Golgotha.
   —Shakespeare: Macbeth, act i. sc. 2 (1606).

In the University of Cambridge, the dons’ gallery in Great St. Mary’s is called “Golgotha,” because the heads of the colleges sit there.

Golgotha (The City). Temple Bar, London, used to be so called because the heads of traitors, etc., were at one time exposed there after decapitation. This was not done from any notion of punishment, but simply to advertise the fact as a warning to evil-doers. Temple Bar was removed from the Strand in 1878.

Goliards (The), clerical buffoons, jongleurs, and minstrels. The Confessio Golias, attributed to Walter Mapes, is the supposed confession of a Goliard. His three sins were a love of dice, wine, and women.