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In February of 1767 he is 'coming into great employment; I have this winter made sixty-five guineas, which is a considerable sum for a young man, and the Boswelliana shew him in easy intercourse with the best society in the Scottish capital.
His unstudied passages, though never elegant, are well enough. He is industrious. Though we must dissent from some of his conclusions, he is entitled to the praise of being accurate, and is free from prejudice, except that amiable prejudice which has been well called the lues Boswelliana.
'The first time Suard saw Burke, who was at Reynolds's, Johnson touched him on the shoulder and said, "Le grand Burke." Boswelliana, p. 299. See ante, ii. 450. See post, p. 42. See ante, i. 326. This assertion concerning Johnson's insensibility to the pathetick powers of Otway, is too round.
Trevelyan's Life of Macaulay. Yet no later biographer has been quite as fortunate in a subject; and Boswell remains as not only the first, but the best of his class. One special merit implies something like genius. Macaulay has given to the usual complaint which distorts the vision of most biographers the name of lues Boswelliana.
Their common ancestor was Robert Bruce, some sixteen generations back. Boswell's mother's grandmother was a Bruce of the Earl of Kincardine's family, and so also was his father's mother. Rogers's Boswelliana, pp. 4, 5. He refers to Johnson's pension, which was given nearly two years after George Ill's accession. Ante, i. 372. Ante, p. 51. He repeated this advice in 1777. Ante, iii. 207.
I believe, however, I shall follow my own opinion; for the world has shewn a very flattering partiality to my writings, on many occasions. BOSWELL. In Boswelliana, p. 222, Boswell, after recording a story about Voltaire, adds: 'In contradiction to this story, see in my Journal the account which Tronchin gave me of Voltaire. This Journal was probably destroyed by Boswell's family.
Mag. 1783, p. 362. Boswell's grandfather's grandmother was a Miss Cunningham. Rogers's Boswelliana, p. 4. I do not know that there was any nearer connection. In Scotland, I suppose, so much kindred as this makes two men 'near relations. 'Unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other. St. Luke, vi. 29.
White; "nay sir, I read no books, but I used to sit whole forenoons a-yawning and poking the fire." Boswelliana, p. 221. The French were more successful than Mr. They have taken up gravity, thinking it was philosophy and English, and so have acquired nothing in the room of their natural levity and cheerfulness. See ante, ii. 8. See ante, i. 332. See ante, i. 468, and Boswell's Hebrides, Oct. 4.
In the Boswelliana are preserved many of old Auchinleck's stories which Lord Monboddo says he could tell well with wit and gravity stories of the circuit and bar type of Braxfield and Eskgrove, such as Scott used to tell to the wits round the fire of the Parliament House.
Ante, ii. 377, note 1. He was not called till Hilary Term, 1786. Rogers's Boswelliana, p. 143. Mr. Johnson's Prologue at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre. Works, i. 23. According to Mr. Seward, who published this account in his Anecdotes, ii. 83, it was Mr. Langton's great-grandfather who drew it up. 'My Lord said that his rule for his, health was to be temperate and keep himself warm.
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