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Anec. p. 23. Ib. p. 302. Rasselas, chap, xvii Paradise Lost, iv. 639. Anec. p. 63. 'Johnson one day, on seeing an old terrier lie asleep by the fire-side at Streatham, said, "Presto, you are, if possible, a more lazy dog that I am." Johnson's Works, ed. 1787, xi. 203. Upon mentioning this to my friend Mr.
I never speak of her, and I desire never to hear of her more. I drive her, as I said, wholly from my mind." Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 328. See ante, i. 493. Anec. p. 293. 'The saying of the old philosopher who observes, "that he who wants least is most like the gods who want nothing," was a favourite sentence with Dr.
Johnson protest that he never had quite as much as he wished of wall-fruit, except once in his life. Piozzi's Anec. p. 103. At the Essex Head, Essex-street. Juvenal, Satires, x. 8: 'Fate wings with every wish the afflictive dart. Vanity of Human Wishes, l. 15. Mr. Allen, the printer. BOSWELL. See ante, iii. 141, 269. His letter to Dr.
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. See ante, iii. 254, and iv. 237. Croker suggests, from accommoder, in the sense of dressing up or cooking meats. 'Louis Moréri, né en Provence, en 1643.
No man," continued he, not observing the amazement of his hearers, "no man is so cautious not to interrupt another; no man thinks it so necessary to appear attentive when others are speaking; no man so steadily refuses preference on himself, or so willingly bestows it on another, as I do; no man holds so strongly as I do the necessity of ceremony, and the ill effects which follow the breach of it; yet people think me rude; but Barnard did me justice." Piozzi's Anec. p. 36.
D'Arblay's Diary, i. 243 and 427. Anec. p. 258. George James Cholmondeley, Esq., grandson of George, third Earl of Cholmondeley, and one of the Commissioners of Excise; a gentleman respected for his abilities, and elegance of manners.
William Cooke, 'commonly called Conversation Cooke, wrote Lives of Macklin and Foote. Forster's Essays, ii. 312, and Gent. Mag. 1824, p. 374. Mr. Richard Paul Joddrel, or Jodrell, was the author of The Persian Heroine, a Tragedy, which, in Baker's Biog. Dram. i. 400, is wrongly assigned to Sir R.P. Jodrell, M.D. Nichols's Lit. Anec. ix. 2. For Mr. Paradise see ante, p. 364, note 2. Dr.
Salusbury, who deems it of too private and delicate a character to be submitted to strangers, but has kindly supplied me with some curious passages from it. Hayward's Piozzi, i. 6. Ib. p. 51 . BOSWELL. Anec. p. 193 . BOSWELL. See ante, ii. 285, and iii. 440. Johnson's Works, i. 152, 3. In vol. ii. of the Piozzi Letters some of these letters are given. He gave Miss Thrale lessons in Latin. Mme.
'Tyers is described in The Idler, No. 48, under the name of Tom Restless; "a circumstance," says Mr. Nichols, "pointed out to me by Dr. Johnson himself." Lit. Anec. viii. 81.
'When I went with Johnson to Lichfield, and came down to breakfast at the inn, my dress did not please him, and he made me alter it entirely before he would stir a step with us about the town, saying most satirical things concerning the appearance I made in a riding-habit; and adding, "'Tis very strange that such eyes as yours cannot discern propriety of dress; if I had a sight only half as good, I think I should see to the centre." Piozzi's Anec. p. 288.
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