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Assure Sir Joshua, in particular, that I have not lost my relish for manly conversation and the society of the brown table. Garrick Corres. ii. 256. I believe that in Gibbon's published letters no mention is found of Johnson. See ante, ii. 159, and post, April 4, 1778. Of his greatness at the Bar Lord Eldon has left the following anecdote; 'Mr.
Hawkins wrote: 'In short, Sir, the world will be a proper judge whether I have been candidly treated by you. Garrick, in his reply, did not make the impertinent offer which he here boasts of. Hawkins lived in Dorsetshire, not in Devonshire; as he reminds Garrick who had misdirected his letter. Garrick Corres. ii. 7-11. See ante, i. 433.
Her grandson, the present Macleod, assures me that it was not so: 'they were all, he says emphatically, 'delighted with him. CROKER. Mr. Croker refers, I think, to a communication from Sir Walter Scott, published in the Croker Corres. ii. 33. Scott writes: 'When wind-bound at Dunvegan, Johnson's temper became most execrable, and beyond all endurance, save that of his guide.
Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia, Chalmers's Poets, viii. 242. 'If, after all, we must with Wilmot own, The cordial drop of life is love alone. Garrick wrote in 1776: 'Gout, stone, and sore throat! Yet I am in spirits. Garrick Corres, ii. 138. See ante, p. 70. See ante, i. 81.
She could only have been away for the day; for in 1776 Garrick wrote: 'As I have not left Mrs. Garrick one day since we were married, near twenty-eight years, I cannot now leave her. Garrick Corres. ii. 150. Dr.
Croker on Dec. 7, 1845: 'Very shortly before George III's accession my father became confidential secretary of Lord Bute, if you can call secretary a man who all through his life was so bad a penman that he always dictated everything, and of whom, although I have a house full of papers, I have scarcely any in his own hand. Croker Corres. iii. 178.
Barbauld says: 'I believe it is true that in England genius and learning obtain less personal notice than in most other parts of Europe. She censures 'the contemptuous manner in which Lady Wortley Montagu mentioned Richardson: "The doors of the Great," she says, "were never opened to him." Richardson Corres. i. clxxiv.
Riccoboni wrote to Garrick on May 3, 1769: 'Vous conviendrez que les nobles sont peu ménagés par vos auteurs; le sot, le fat, ou le malhonnête homme mêlé dans l'intrigue est presque toujours un lord. Garrick Corres, ii. 561. Dr.
"Why then, Madame," said he, quite out of patience, "the best thing I can advise you to do is to put your tragedy along with your irons." Mrs. B. was Mrs. Brooke. See Baker's Biog. Dram. iii. 273, where no less than thirty-seven Sieges are enumerated. That the story was true is shewn by the Garrick Corres. ii. 6.
Sir Walter Scott says that 'Reynolds observed the charge given him by Johnson on his death-bed not to use his pencil of a Sunday for a considerable time, but afterwards broke it, being persuaded by some person who was impatient for a sitting that the Doctor had no title to exact such a promise. Croker's Corres. ii. 34.
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