Swingeing Tureen

How could "SELEUCUS" "conclude" that Goldsmith's "Poor Beau Tibbs and Kitty his Wife," should have had "a *silver* tureen" of expensive construction? It is evident that "Kitty's" husband, in the "Haunch of Venison," was the Beau Tibbs of the "Citizen of the World." There can be no doubt that, however the word be spelled, he meaning is *swingeing*, "huge, great," which I admit was generally, if not always, in those days spelled swinging, as in Johnson—"*Swinging*, from *swinge, huge, great*;" but which ought to be, as it is pronounced, *swingeing*. *Tureen* (pp. 246. 307. 340.).—"And instead of…