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Updated: September 29, 2025
Bozzy had been writing a series of articles, 'The Hypochondriack, in the London Magazine, for about two years, but he was advised not to mention his own mental diseases, or to expect for them either the praise for which there was no room, or the pity which would do him no good.
"My dear, it is surprising what an admiration I find myself possessed of for Sir John Pringle." "Sir John Pringle?" said the lady, in bewilderment. "Bozzy, my dear the great Bozzy amid the experiments of his youth, turned Catholic. His distracted relations deputed Sir John Pringle to deal with him. That great lawyer pointed out the worldly disadvantages of the step.
These hesitances the other wisely pushed aside with the soldierly advice to strengthen his mind by the perusal of Livy and Plutarch. In return Bozzy gave an imitation of 'my revered friend Mr Samuel Johnson, little dreaming that all three would one day be intimate in London, and the general's house in Portman Square be always at the traveller's disposal.
I share their triumphant aloofness from the play that fills our stage and see its place in the scheme of the unending drama of men. That sly rogue Pepys, of course, is there more thumb-stained than any of them except Bozzy. What a miracle is this man who lives more vividly in our eyes than any creature that ever walked the earth! What was the secret of his magic?
The qualifying adjective 'good' is dangerous, and before the time for the bill was half expired, Bozzy has closured it and the amendment.
After Johnson's death she published a volume of her reminiscences of him, which may be allowed to have been worthy neither of him nor of her, and which was ridiculed by Peter Pindar in "A Town Eclogue," in which the rivals Bozzy and Piozzi, on Virgil's principle Alternis dicetis, amant alterna Camaenae relate in turn anecdotes of Johnson's way of life, his witty sayings, &c., &c.
Bozzy was in consequence viewed as 'a very close young man, a trait that at no time of his life was ever applicable to James Boswell, on whom, indeed, the advice given by Sir Henry Wotton to Milton would have been thrown away. Putting out to sea in a Tuscan vessel bound for Capo Corso for wine, he had two days to spend on board in consequence of a dead calm.
For a time all went well. They walked about 'the romantick groves of my ancestors, and Bozzy discoursed on the antiquity and honourable alliances of the family, and on the merits of its founder, Thomas, who fell with King James at Flodden. But the storm broke, over the judge's collection of medals, where that of Oliver Cromwell brought up Charles the First and Episcopacy.
All his life Bozzy affected the company of players, among whom he professed to find 'an animation and a relish of existence, and at this period he tells us he was flattered by being held forth as a patron of literature.
"The ambassador says well," would the sage repeat many times, which, as Bozzy tells, became a favourite form in the côterie for ironical approbation. There was much of this in our great man, whose voice became of the sweetest and most mellifluous key, as he bent before the peer. "Lord ," he would add gently, and turning to the company, "has been saying, with much force," etc.
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