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Having unexpectedly, by the favour of Mr. Stone, of London Field, Hackney, seen the original in Johnson's hand-writing, of 'The Petition of the City of London to his Majesty, in favour of Dr. Dodd, I now present it to my readers, with such passages as were omitted in-closed in crotchets, and the additions or variations marked in Italicks. His Speech at the Old Bailey, when found guilty.
Dodd inserted, 'I never knew or attended to the calls of frugality, or the needful minuteness of painful oeconomy; and in the next sentence he introduced the words which I distinguish by Italicks; 'My life for some few unhappy years past has been dreadfully erroneous. Johnson's expression was hypocritical; but his remark on the margin is 'With this he said he could not charge himself.
... Shreds of purple with broad lustre shine Sewed on your poem. FRANCIS. Horace, Ars Poet. 15. The original reading is enclosed in crochets, and the present one is printed in Italicks. Boswell, on the next page, supplies one more instance 'Images such as the superficies of nature readily supplies. See ante, iii. 249.
The epitaph which has been inscribed on the pillar erected on the banks of the Leven, in honour of Dr. Smollett, is as follows. The part which was written by Dr. Johnson, it appears, has been altered; whether for the better, the reader will judge. The alterations are distinguished by Italicks.
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