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W. King's Anec. p. 201. 'Lord Marischal, writes Hume, 'had a very bad opinion of this unfortunate prince; and thought there was no vice so mean or atrocious of which he was not capable; of which he gave me several instances. J. H. Burton's Hume, ii. 464. Siècle de Louis XIV, ch. 15. The accentuation of this passage, which was very incorrect as quoted by Boswell, I have corrected.
He loved indeed the very act of travelling.... He was in some respects an admirable companion on the road, as he piqued himself upon feeling no inconvenience, and on despising no accommodations. Piozzi's Anec. p. 168. Johnson, this same year, speaking of a friend who had gone to the East Indies, said: 'I had some intention of accompanying him.
"He may paint himself as deaf, if he chooses," replied Johnson, "but I will not be blinking Sam." Piozzi's Anec. p. 248. 'You look in vain for the helmet on the tower, the ancient signal of hospitality to the traveller, or for the grey-headed porter to conduct him to the hall of entertainment.
Pope told Spence that 'Lord Bolingbroke's carrying his friends to the house, and presenting Booth with a purse of guineas for so well representing the character of a person "who rather chose to die than see a general for life," carried the success of the play much beyond what they ever expected. Spence's Anec. p. 46. Bolingbroke alluded to the Duke of Marlborough.
'I have seen, wrote Wraxall, 'the Duchess of Devonshire, then in the first bloom of youth, hanging on the sentences that fell from Johnson's lips, and contending for the nearest place to his chair. All the cynic moroseness of the philosopher and the moralist seemed to dissolve under so flattering an approach. Wraxall's Memoirs, ed. 1815, i. 158. In Nichols's Lit. Anec. viii. 548, 9, Dr.
The Lives were soon published in a separate edition; when, for a very few corrections, he was presented with another hundred guineas. Nichols's Lit. Anec. viii. 416. See ante, iii. 111. In Mr. Morrison's Collection of Autographs &c., vol. ii, 'is Johnson's receipt for 100l., from the proprietors of The Lives of the Poets for revising the last edition of that work. It is dated Feb. 19, 1783.
However severe the reproof was, the Mores do not seem to have been much touched by it. At all events they enjoyed the meeting with Johnson, and Hannah More needed a second reproof that was conveyed to her through Miss Reynolds. Anec. p. 202. See ante, i. 40, 68, 92, 415, 481; ii. 188, 194; iii. 229; and post, v. 245, note 2. Anec. p. 44.
Brighton, autumn; a short visit. Piozzi's Anec. p. 126, and Piozzi Letters, i. 1. Streatham, summer and autumn; more than three months. Ante, ii. 25, and Pr. and Med. p. 71. Oxford, autumn; a month. Ante, ii. 25. Lichfield, summer and autumn; 'near six months. Ante, ii. 30, and Piozzi Letters, i. 4, 5. Oxford, spring; several weeks. Piozzi Letters, i. 6-15.
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