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Johnson, it seems, had a good opinion of his medical skill, and more or less employed his services in that capacity. He attended his patron at his breakfast; breakfasting, said Percy, "on the crust of a roll, which Johnson threw to him after tearing out the crumb." The phrase, it is said, goes too far; Johnson always took pains that Levett should be treated rather as a friend than as a dependant.
I once got from one of his friends a list, which there was pretty good reason to suppose was accurate, for it was written down in his presence by this friend, who enumerated each article aloud, and had some of them mentioned to him by Mr. Levett, in concert with whom it was made out; and Johnson, who heard all this, did not contradict it.
It was a very severe winter, which probably aggravated his complaints; and the solitude in which Mr. Levett and Mrs. Williams had left him, rendered his life very gloomy. Mrs. Desmoulins, who still lived, was herself so very ill, that she could contribute very little to his relief. He, however, had none of that unsocial shyness which we commonly see in people afflicted with sickness.
At a time when he was less able than he had once been to sustain a shock, he was suddenly deprived of Mr. Levett, which event he thus communicated to Dr. Lawrence: 'Our old friend, Mr. Levett, who was last night eminently cheerful, died this morning. The man who lay in the same room, hearing an uncommon noise, got up and tried to make him speak, but without effect. He then called Mr.
She went for some part of the autumn into the country, but is little benefited; and Dr. Lawrence confesses that his art is at an end. Death is, however, at a distance; and what more than that can we say of ourselves? I am sorry for her pain, and more sorry for her decay. Mr. Levett is sound, wind and limb. 'I was some weeks this autumn at Brighthelmstone.
Levett, long an inmate of Johnson's house and a dependent on his bounty; but who, Boswell thought, must be an irksome charge upon him. "He is poor and honest," said Goldsmith, "which is recommendation enough to Johnson." Boswell mentioned another person of a very bad character, and wondered at Johnson's kindness to him.
He thus mentions them, together with honest Levett, in one of his letters to Mrs. Thrale : 'Williams hates every body; Levett hates Desmoulins, and does not love Williams; Desmoulins hates them both; Poll loves none of them. 'To JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.
And on top of that warning Paul had received one afternoon a printed postal card, filled in here and there with the pen, which was as follows: "Erskine College, November 4, 1901. "Mr. Paul Gale. "Dear Sir: You are requested to call on the Dean, Tuesday, November 5th, during the regular office hours. "Yours respectfully, "Ephraim Levett, Dean." Paul obeyed the mandate with sinking heart.
Levett just come in at fourscore from a walk to Hampstead, eight miles, in August. Piozzi Letters, ii. 177. In the original, March 20. On the afternoon of March 20 Lord North announced in the House of Commons 'that his Majesty's Ministers were no more. Parl. Hist. xxii. 1215. Pr. and Med. p. 209 . BOSWELL. See ante, ii. 355, iii. 46, iv. 81, 100. Mr.
So has ended the long life of a very useful and very blameless man. I am, Sir, your most humble servant, 'Jan. 17, 1782. In one of his memorandum-books in my possession, is the following entry: 'January 20, Sunday. Robert Levett was buried in the church-yard of Bridewell, between one and two in the afternoon. He died on Thursday 17, about seven in the morning, by an instantaneous death.
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