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And now I am to give a pretty full account of one of the most curious incidents in Johnson's life, of which he himself has made the following minute on this day: 'In my return from church, I was accosted by Edwards , an old fellow-collegian, who had not seen me since 1729.
At Athens he met an old fellow-collegian, the Marquis of Sligo, with whom he soon after travelled as far as Corinth; the Marquis turning off there for Tripolizza, while Byron went forward to Patras, where he had some needful business to transact with the consul.
At the same time arrived Scythrop's friend and fellow-collegian, the Honourable Mr Listless.
He told them, "It is well you did; or half your heads should have been upon Temple-bar ." But the House of Commons is now no longer under the power of the crown, and therefore must be bribed. He added, 'I have no delight in talking of publick affairs . Of his fellow-collegian, the celebrated Mr.
Clement's church with him as usual. There I saw again his old fellow-collegian, Edwards, to whom I said, 'I think, Sir, Dr. Johnson told me, that there was very little communication between Edwards and him, after their unexpected renewal of acquaintance. I was unwilling that he should leave the world in total darkness, and sent him a set. Mr. Berrenger visited him to-day, and was very pleasing.
Of his fellow-collegian, the celebrated Mr. George Whitefield, he said, 'Whitefield never drew as much attention as a mountebank does; he did not draw attention by doing better than others, but by doing what was strange. Were Astley to preach a sermon standing upon his head on a horse's back, he would collect a multitude to hear him; but no wise man would say he had made a better sermon for that.
There was a very numerous congregation to-day at St. Clement's church, which Dr. Johnson said he observed with pleasure. And now I am to give a pretty full account of one of the most curious incidents in Johnson's life, of which he himself has made the following minute on this day: 'In my return from church, I was accosted by Edwards, an old fellow-collegian, who had not seen me since 1729.
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