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Then there was the broken-down Levett, and Francis Barber, who, coming as a servant, remained as one of the family, because he was too old to work. A Miss Carmichael, in green spectacles and bombazine, carrying a cane, completed what the Doctor called his "seraglio." Writing to Mrs.
When the W. C. T. U. converted old Governor Levett, he got ambitious and tried it on. And the only thing he found he could do was to issue a proclamation to the sheriffs 'to do their duty. The most of 'em framed it and hung it up in their offices; it was too good a joke to keep hid." They walked on in silence. Harlan did not find it easy to continue that line of talk.
It has been truly said that the lame, the blind, and the sorrowful found in his house a sure retreat. See also ante, iii. 222. At the same time it must be remembered that while Mrs. Desmoulins and Miss Carmichael only brought trouble into the house, in the society of Mrs. Williams and Levett he had real pleasure. See ante, i. 232, note 1, and 243, note 3.
Mackintosh thus sums up this question: 'The truth is, that endless fallacies must arise from the attempt to appreciate by retrospect human life, of which the enjoyments depend on hope. Life of Mackintosh, ii. 160. See ante, ii. 350. In the lines on Levett. Ante, p. 137. AURENGZEBE, act iv. sc. 1. BOSWELL. According to Dr. Boswell does not give the last
It will be a fitting close to this brief indication of one side of Johnson's character, too easily overlooked in Boswell's pages, to quote part of what Thackeray truly calls the "sacred verses" upon Levett: Well tried through many a varying year See Levett to the grave descend, Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
Tovell and their only child, a daughter, lived an orphan niece of Mr. Tovell's, a Miss Sarah Elmy, Miss Brereton's bosom-friend, and constant companion. Mr. Levett had in consequence become the friend of the Tovell family, and conceived the desire that his young friend, Crabbe, should be as blessed as himself.
Levett died young in 1774, and did not live to marry, but during his brief friendship with Crabbe was the means of introducing him to the lady who, after many years of patient waiting, became his wife. In the village of Great Parham, not far from Framlingham, lived a Mr. Tovell, of Parham Hall, a substantial yeoman, farming his own estate. With Mr. and Mrs.
He repeated to me his verses on Mr. Levett, with an emotion which gave them full effect ; and then he was pleased to say, 'You must be as much with me as you can. You have done me good. You cannot think how much better I am since you came in. He sent a message to acquaint Mrs. Thrale that I was arrived. I had not seen her since her husband's death.
The use of the abbreviation Monny on Johnson's part scarcely seems a proof of kindliness. On May 13 he wrote: Now I am broken loose, my friends seem willing enough to see me. ... But I do not now drive the world about; the world drives or draws me. I am very weak. Piozzi Letters, ii. 369. See ante, iii, 443. See ante, p. 197. Boswell himself, likely enough. Verses on the death of Mr. Levett.
Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank, all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. But we have no minute information respecting those years of Johnson's life during which his character and his manners became immutably fixed.
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