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This was very true; the Master of Lovat had received a Royal gift of £6000 to raise a regiment of his clan, and had literally picked up boys of fifteen in London and Westminster. Ib. p. 316. He made his will in his wife's life-time, and appointed her and Sir William Forbes, or the survivor of them, 'tutors and curators' to his children. Boswelliana, p. 186.
Webster told them he was sorry to go away so early, but was obliged to catch the tide, to cross the Firth of Forth. "Better stay a little," said Thomas Earl of Kelly, "till you be half-seas over." Rogers's Boswelliana, p. 325. See ante, i. 354. In the first edition, and his son the advocate.
A man who has lost his caste! who ought to have melted lead poured down his nostrils, if the good old Vedas were in force as they ought to be." These are some Boswelliana of Sydney; not very clerical, you will say, but indescribably amusing to the hearers, whatever the readers may think of them.
Some idea of the extent to which Napier suffered from the Lues Boswelliana may be gathered from the fact that he regards even the Claverhouse of that incomparable romance as a libel. "The Hell wicked-witted, bloodthirsty Graham of Claverhouse hated to spend his time with wine and women." "Life of Walter Smith," in Walker's "Biographia Presbyteriana." "I saw the man who at St.
Of his life abroad some isolated notes may be gathered from the Boswelliana, and, as has been mentioned, he sought out his relatives at the Hague 'of the first fashion, the Sommelsdycks, and with his facility of manners, and his father's credentials to the literati and scholars of the place, his circle of acquaintance was large and influential. We hear of an intimacy with the Rev.
The host left every one at perfect liberty to scramble for himself. 'Rags' is certainly a strong word to apply to any of the company; but then strong words were what Johnson used. Northcote mentions 'the mixture of company. Northcote's Reynolds, ii. 94-6. See ante, iii. 375, note 2. The Mayor of Windsor. Rogers's Boswelliana, p. 211. The play was acted at Drury Lane Theatre, old Mr.
It was his sister who was Boswell's step-mother. Rogers's Boswelliana, pp. 4, 82.
The Boswelliana supplies here some slight confirmation of this, for there have been preserved in that collection stories that reappear in the Life, and the final form in which they appear in the later book is always that of a pointed and improved nature.
'I do beseech all the succeeding heirs of entail, wrote Boswell in his will, 'to be kind to the tenants, and not to turn out old possessors to get a little more rent. Rogers's Boswelliana, p. 186. Macleod, the Laird of Rasay. See Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 8. A farm in the Isle of Skye, where Johnson wrote his Latin Ode to Mrs. Thrale. Ib. Sept. 6. Johnson wrote to Dr.
Langton, 'used to laugh at a passage in Carte's Life of the Duke of Ormond, where he gravely observes "that he was always in full dress when he went to court; too many being in the practice of going thither with double lapells." Boswelliana, p. 274.
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