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'I was told, wrote Sir Walter Scott, 'that a gentleman called Pot, or some such name, was introduced to him as a particular admirer of his. The Doctor growled and took no further notice. "He admires in especial your Irene as the finest tragedy modern times;" to which the Doctor replied, "If Pot says so, Pot lies!" and relapsed into his reverie. Croker Corres. ii. 32.
I rather think the author wishes to be taken by Gray's admirers for a ridiculer of Johnson, and by the tatter's for a censurer of Gray. "The cleverest parody of the Doctor's style of criticism," wrote Sir Walter Scott, "is by John Young of Glasgow, and is very capital." Croker Corres, ii. 34. See ante, iv. 59, for Burke's description of Croft's imitation. See ante, ii. 465.
He considered every foreigner as a fool till they had convinced him of the contrary. Taylor's Reynolds, ii. 460. Garrick wrote of the French in 1769: 'Their politesse has reduced their character to such a sameness, and their humours and passions are so curbed by habit, that, when you have seen half-a-dozen French men and women, you have seen the whole. Garrick Corres. i. 358.
Necker in a letter to Garrick said: 'Nos acteurs se métamorphosent assez bien, mais Monsieur Garrick fait autre chose; il nous métamorphose tous dans le caractère qu'il a revêtu; nous sommes remplis de terreur avec Hamlet, &c. Garrick Corres. ii. 627. See ante, i. 432, and ii. 278. See ante, ii. 11.
To me who am to read everything you write, it would be a great comfort, and to you no sort of disparagement. Why will you not allow yourself to be persuaded that polish is material to preservation? Burke's Corres, iii. 164. Edit. 2, p. 53. This is a mistake. The Ports had been seated at Islam time out of mind.
The editor is in error in saying that the Earl of Liverpool who wrote this was son of the Prime Minister. He was his half-brother. Burke wrote to Garrick of Fitzherbert: 'You know and love him; but I assure you, until we can talk some late matters over, you, even you, can have no adequate idea of the worth of that man. Garrick Corres. i. 190. See ante, i. 82. 'I remember a man, writes Mrs.
I remember the Highlands ten or twelve years later, and no one can conceive of 'how much that could have been easily remedied travellers had to complain. Croker Corres. ii. 34 'Of these islands it must be confessed, that they have not many allurements but to the mere lover of naked nature.
Brocklesby wrote to Burke, on July 2, 1788, to make him 'an instant present of £1000, which, he continues, 'for years past, by will, I had destined as a testimony of my regard on my decease. Burke, accepting the present, said: 'I shall never be ashamed to have it known, that I am obliged to one who never can be capable of converting his kindness into a burthen. Burke's Corres. iii.78.
Burke said of Hussey, who was his friend and correspondent, that in his character he had made 'that very rare union of the enlightened statesman with the ecclesiastic. Burke's Corres. iv. 270. Boswell refers, I believe, to Fordyce's epitaph on Johnson in the Gent. Mag. 1785, p. 412, or possibly to an Ode on p. 50 of his poems.
A Dane wrote to Garrick from Copenhagen on Dec. 23, 1769: 'There is some of our retinue who, not understanding a word of your language, mimic your gesture and your action: so great an impression did it make upon their minds, the scene of daggers has been repeated in dumb show a hundred times, and those most ignorant of the English idiom can cry out with rapture, "A horse, a horse; my kingdom for a horse!" Garrick Corres. i. 375.
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