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Ante, ii. 377, note 1. He was not called till Hilary Term, 1786. Rogers's Boswelliana, p. 143. Mr. Johnson's Prologue at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre. Works, i. 23. According to Mr. Seward, who published this account in his Anecdotes, ii. 83, it was Mr. Langton's great-grandfather who drew it up. 'My Lord said that his rule for his, health was to be temperate and keep himself warm.
The first Archbishop of Canterbury since the Conquest directly nominated by the pope for even in Langton's case there was a form of election Richard le Grand at once began to quarrel with the justiciar, demanding that he should surrender the custody of Tunbridge castle on the ground of some ancient claim of the see of Canterbury.
See post, 1780, in Mr. Langton's Collection. Hay was third in command in the expedition to North America in 1757. It was reported that he said that 'the nation's wealth was expended in making sham-fights and planting cabbages. He was put under arrest and sent home to be tried. Gent. Mag. 1758, p. 170. Mr.
Genevieve convulsed them by a dramatic representation of a stormy scene between herself and Madame Philippe; then Miss Evans's new evening frock, Miss Marlowe's incomprehensible taste in preferring Jane Austen to Dickens, Miss Langton's terrifying sarcasm, Miss Ashwell's sweet new sweater coat, all were discussed with an enormous amount of interest and delight.
See post, 1780, in Mr. Langton's Collection, near the end. In a postscript to the later editions he says: 'It had not come to my knowledge, when I left off The Spectator, that I owe several excellent sentiments and agreeable pieces in this work to Mr. Ince, of Gray's Inn. Mr. Ince died in 1758. Gent. Mag. 1758, p. 504. Spectator, No. 364. Sir Edward Barry, Baronet.
'I am with great regard, 'Sir, 'Your most obedient humble servant, 'London, '31 October, 1791. 'To John Richards, Esq., R.A. &c. Bennet Langton's letter of acceptance of the Professorship of Ancient Literature in the place of Johnson is dated April 2, 1788.
On the frame of his portrait, Mr. Beauclerk had inscribed, Ingenium ingens Inculto latet hoc sub corpore . After Mr. Beauclerk's death, when it became Mr. Langton's property, he made the inscription be defaced. Johnson said complacently, 'It was kind in you to take it off; and then after a short pause, added, 'and not unkind in him to put it on.
The following letter, written with an agitated hand, from the very chamber of death, by Mr. Langton, and obviously interrupted by his feelings, will not unaptly close the story of so long a friendship. The letter is not addressed, but Mr. Langton's family believe it was intended for Mr. Boswell.
Langton's share in the struggle for the charters was so conspicuous, that we do not always remember that it was as a scholar and a theologian that he acquired his chief reputation among his contemporaries. On his return from exile he found such engrossing occupation in the business of his see, that he took little part in politics for several years.
The Collector peeled his walnut and smiled to himself. In other company Batty Langton's, for example he would have answered cynically that to him the phenomenon of a natural born lady would first of all suggest a doubt of her mother's virtue.
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