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There, and in such lines as the stanza on Levett "His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed,"
For this and Dr. Johnson's other letters to Mr. Levett, I am indebted to my old acquaintance Mr. Nathaniel Thomas, whose worth and ingenuity have been long known to a respectable, though not a wide circle; and whose collection of medals would do credit to persons of greater opulence. Johnson's letters to Mrs. Thrale shew the difference between modern Brighton and the Brighthelmstone of his days.
The old man bore it all, relieving himself by an occasional growl, but reproaching any who ventured to join in the growl for their indifference to the sufferings of poverty. Levett died in January, 1782; Miss Williams died, after a lingering illness, in 1783, and Johnson grieved in solitude for the loss of his testy companions.
After a sorrowful sojourn, I returned to a habitation possessed for the present by two sick women, where my dear old friend, Mr. Levett, to whom as he used to tell me, I owe your acquaintance , died a few weeks ago, suddenly in his bed; there passed not, I believe, a minute between health and death. At night, as at Mrs.
But he had other complaints, and never again knew even that modest measure of health which he had once enjoyed. The inevitable loss of friends, that saddest and most universal sorrow of old age, joined with illness to depress his last years. Beauclerk died in 1780, Thrale in 1781, Levett and Mrs.
* He sent a set elegantly bound and gilt, which was received as a very handsome present. This letter crossed me on the road to London, where I arrived on Monday, March 15, and next morning at a late hour, found Dr. Johnson sitting over his tea, attended by Mrs. Desmoulins, Mr. Levett, and a clergyman, who had come to submit some poetical pieces to his revision.
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