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The feminine quickness of observation, the feminine softness of heart, the colloquial incorrectness and vivacity of style, the little amusing airs of a half-learned lady, the delightful garrulity, the "dear Doctor Johnson," the "it was so comical," all disappear in Mr. Croker's quotations.
Ante, i. 476. Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire, part of June, July, and August. Croker's Boswell, p. 166, note, and ante, i. 486. Oxford, October. Letter to Mr. Strahan dated Oxford, Oct. 24, 1764. Post, Addenda to vol. v. Either this year or the next Johnson made the acquaintance of the Thrales.
On April 19, he wrote: 'I can apply better to books than I could in some more vigorous parts of my life at least than I did; and I have one more reason for reading that time has, by taking away my companions, left me less opportunity of conversation. Croker's Boswell, p. 727. He told Mr. Windham that he had never read the Odyssey through in the original. Windham's Diary, p. 17.
To kilt, i.e. to elevate or lift up anything quickly; this applied, ludicrously, to tucking by a halter. Jamieson's Dictionary. "Their bare preaching now Makes the thrush bush keep the cow Better than Scots or English kings Could do by kilting them with strings." See Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, Act I. Sc. 3. See Boswell's Johnson, Croker's ed. imp. 8vo, p. 318.
We are sorry to be obliged to say that the merits of Mr. Croker's performance are on a par with those of a certain leg of mutton on which Dr. Johnson dined, while travelling from London to Oxford, and which he, with characteristic energy, pronounced to be "as bad as bad could be, ill fed, ill killed, ill kept, and ill dressed."
Croker that though he would suffer in silence he was none the less suffering. It being precisely Mr. Croker's business to rap out grouches as an expert mechanician taps defective cogs, it happened the day after Peter's meeting with the girl that the worst hopes of Horace were realized. "Aw, they're always a pickin' on me, Mr. Croker, that's what they are, Mr.
This letter, brimful of anecdote, is printed in Croker's Correspondence, vol. ii. pp. 28-34. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7. February 1. Domum mansi, lanam feci, stayed at home videlicet, and laboured without interruption except from intolerable drowsiness; finished eight leaves, however, the best day's work I have made this long time.
I doubt whether I shall get fees equal to the expense. Ib. p. 335. 'Nov. 22, 1791. I keep chambers open in the Temple, I attend in Westminster Hall, but there is not the least prospect of my having business. Ib. p. 344. His chambers, as he wrote to Malone, were 'in the very staircase where Johnson lived. Croker's Boswell, p. 830. Sunday was the 21st.
"I had not time to write more than a line the other day under Croker's cover, having received it just at post time. He sent for me; I found him in his nightcap at the Admiralty, colded badly, but in audacious spirits. His business was this. He wishes to buy up some evening print, such as the dull Star; and could I do anything for it?
The writer, however, is of a different opinion, as he is inclined to think that the Reverend Montagu Blake will be a pattern for all fathers. One word more we must add of Mr Whittlestaff and his future life, and one word of Mrs Baggett. Mr Whittlestaff did not leave Croker's Hall.
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