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In this retirement, he also became known to Lord Monboddo, whose family seat was in the parish; and a friendly intercourse ensued, which did not terminate till the death of that learned but visionary man.
The boy took him for a physician. I doubted much which road to take, whether to go by the coast, or by Lawrence Kirk and Monboddo. Foote paid Lord Monboddo the compliment of saying, that he was 'an Elzevir edition of Johnson'. I therefore sent Joseph forward, with the following note. Montrose, 21 August. My dear Lord, Thus far I am come with Mr Samuel Johnson. We must be at Aberdeen to-night.
Nairne's, now also one of our judges, by the title of Lord Dunsinan; at Dr. Blair's, and Mr. Tytler's; and at my house thrice, one evening with a numerous company, chiefly gentlemen of the law; another with Mr. Menzies of Culdares, and Lord Monboddo, who disengaged himself on purpose to meet him; and the evening on which we returned from Lord Elibank's, he supped with my wife and me by ourselves .
We have been told, by Condamine, of a nation that could count no more than four. This should be told to Monboddo; it would help him. There is as much charity in helping a man down-hill, as in helping him up-hill. BOSWELL. 'I don't think there is as much charity. JOHNSON. 'Yes, sir, if his TENDENCY be downwards. Till he is at the bottom, he flounders; get him once there, and he is quiet.
About a mile from Monboddo, where you turn off the road, Joseph was waiting to tell us my lord expected us to dinner. We drove over a wild moor. It rained, and the scene was somewhat dreary. Dr. Johnson repeated, with solemn emphasis, Macbeth's speech on meeting the witches.
Monboddo was then passed, where 'the magnetism of his conversation drew us out of our way, though the prompt action of Boswell as agent in advance really was the source of their invitation.
Which "saying" is sometimes ascribed, I know not how truly, to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. It strikes me, upon second thoughts, that the particular idiom, which Lord Monboddo illustrated as regarded the Greek language, merits a momentary notice; and for this reason that it plays a part not at all less conspicuous or less delicate in the Latin.
Kames, Monboddo, Hume, and Robertson knocked at the late William Hogarth's door, and paid their respects to Widow Hogarth's lodger. Did she ever stand before his easel and contemplate his works? Doubtless often enough when the painter was out firing off his smart cracker sayings, and making away with his port wine. And what did she think of his art? How different from William's!
About a mile from Monboddo, where you turn off the road, Joseph was waiting to tell us my lord expected us to dinner. We drove over a wild moor. It rained, and the scene was somewhat dreary. Dr Johnson repeated, with solemn emphasis, Macbeth's speech on meeting the witches. Burke told me, he doubted if you were fit for it: but, now you are in, none of them are sorry.
But, perhaps, the chief attraction to Burns in the midst of all this super-refinement was the presence of 'the heavenly Miss Burnet, daughter of Lord Monboddo. 'There has not been anything nearly like her, he wrote to his friend Chalmers, 'in all the combinations of beauty and grace and goodness the great Creator has formed since Milton's Eve in the first day of her existence. The Hon.
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