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'Bless'd paper credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! Pope, Moral Essays, iii. 39. Who has been pleased to furnish me with his remarks. BOSWELL. No doubt Malone, who says, however: 'On the whole the publick is indebted to her for her lively, though very inaccurate and artful, account of Dr. Johnson. Prior's Malone, p. 364. See ante, iii. 81. Anec. p. 183.
My countryman recovering some spirits upon the sudden question, cried out, "So I humbly presume, Sir," very comically. Piozzi's Anec. p. 238. The Welsh words, which are the Myddelton motto, mean, 'Without God, without all. God is all-sufficient. Piozzi MS. Croker's Boswell, p. 423.
'Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new; Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet." Piozzi's Anec. p. 64. Thomas Warton in 1777 published a volume of his poems. He, no doubt, is meant. In The Rambler, No. 121.
Johnson, who on his own part required less attendance, sick or well, than ever I saw any human creature. Conversation was all he required to make him happy. Piozzi's Anec. p.275. Miss Burney's account of the life at Streatham is generally very cheerful. I suspect that the irksome confinement described by Mrs. Piozzi was not felt by her till she became attached to Mr. Piozzi.
But either they have got better since I was here, or my eyes, familiarized with the wretchedness of Zetland and the Harris, are less shocked with that of Iona. He found a schoolmaster there. Ib. iv. 324. Johnson's Jacobite friend, Dr. In which he spoke the truth of my Lord Bath, but not of himself. For my Lord Orford was consulted by the ministers to the last day of his life. King's Anec. p. 43.
How the quotation was applied is a matter only for conjecture. 'Was there, asked Johnson, 'ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and The Pilgrim's Progress? Piozzi's Anec. p. 281. See ante, i. 406. See ante, March 25, 1776. In the Gent.
When Parr was a candidate for the mastership of Colchester Grammar School, Johnson wrote for him a letter of recommendation. Johnstone's Parr, i. 94. 'Somebody was praising Corneille one day in opposition to Shakespeare. "Corneille is to Shakespeare," replied Mr. Johnson, "as a clipped hedge is to a forest." Piozzi's Anec. p. 59. Johnson, it is clear, discusses here Mrs.
Young's Night Thoughts, Night iv. See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 20, 1773. According to Mrs. Piozzi 'he liked the expression so well that he often repeated it. Piozzi's Anec. p. 208. He wrote to her: 'Have you not observed in all our conversations that my genius is always in extremes; that I am very noisy or very silent; very gloomy or very merry; very sour or very kind? Piozzi Letters, ii. 166.
Piozzi's Anec. p. 149, where she writes that he said: 'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of any thing than he does of his dinner. A horrible place it was. See ante, p. 177.
Johnson protest that he never had quite as much as he wished of wall-fruit except once in his life, and that was when we were all together at Ombersley. Piozzi's Anec. p. 103. Mrs. Thrale wrote to him in 1778: 'Mr. Scrase gives us fine fruit; I wished you my pear yesterday; but then what would one pear have done for you? Piozzi Letters, ii. 36.
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