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By far the most celebrated of Johnson's Lichfield friends was David Garrick, in regard to whom his relations were somewhat peculiar. Reynolds said that Johnson considered Garrick to be his own property, and would never allow him to be praised or blamed by any one else without contradiction.
For love is a contagious infection; and loving Rudolph Musgrave so much, Patricia must perforce love any person whom he loved as conscientiously as she would have strangled any person with whom he had flirted. It may be remembered that Lichfield had asked long ago, "But who, pray, are the Stapyltons?"
Garrick sometimes used to take him off, squeezing a lemon into a punch-bowl, with uncouth gesticulations, looking round the company, and calling out, 'Who's for POONSH? Very little business appeared to be going forward in Lichfield.
After the six months of comparative seclusion which decency exacted of his widowerhood and thereby afforded him ample leisure to complete and publish his Lichfield Legislative Papers prior to 1800 the colonel, be it repeated, went everywhere; and people found him no whit the worse company for his black gloves and the somber band stitched to his coatsleeve.
After his death I felt my Toryism much abated. I suppose he meant Mr. Walmsley of Lichfield, whose character he has drawn so well in his Life of Edmund Smith . Mr. Nairne came in, and he and I accompanied Dr.
A time of quiet and of preparation for death given to him apart from the hurry of his daily life, then a few months of active service, and then the crown. Bice and Malagona on board; when, just as we were expecting she would have reached Norfolk Island, she was driving back into the harbour. The following letter to the Bishop of Lichfield gives an account of her peril: 'Taurarua: May 11, 1870.
In 786, therefore, he persuaded the Pope to create the Archbishopric of Lichfield. Although Canterbury regained its supremacy upon Offa’s death when Lichfield was shorn by a new Pope of its recently acquired honours, the position gained for the latter see by Offa, though temporary in itself, must have had lasting and important influence.
There is another provision that I'll mention merely to give you the opportunity to repeat it verbally from my lips: the bulk of anything I have, in the possibility we are considering, will go to a Miss Stope, the daughter of Lichfield Stope, formerly of Virginia." He stood up.
He was a clubbable man, and he drew about him at the tavern a group of the most distinguished intellects of the time: Edmund Burke, the orator and statesman; Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, the portrait painter, and David Garrick, the great actor, who had been a pupil in Johnson's school, near Lichfield. Johnson was the typical John Bull of the last century.
It was a bold idea of the Lichfield doctor bold, at least, for the times he lived in when Sam Johnson was held a mighty sage, and physical speculation was regarded askance as having in it a dangerous touch of the devil. But the Darwins were always a bold folk, and had the courage of their opinions more than most men.
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