The Jessamy Bride

'The Jessamy Bride' is a novel written by Frank Frankfort Moore. The story begins with a conversation between Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith, Burke, Reynolds, Boswell and Garrick at the dinner table around the issue of intelligence and the use of facts in an argument. None of them are in agreement, and eventually the conversation ends with Goldsmith stating that introducing facts into an argument on art would strangle the imagination.