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Miss Burney's account of Johnson's last days is interesting, but her dates are confused more even than is common with her. I have corrected them as well as I can. 'Dec. 9. He will not, it seems, be talked to at least very rarely. At times indeed he re-animates; but it is soon over and he says of himself: "I am now like Macbeth question enrages me." 'Dec. 10.
Here the nightingale sang the birth of the rose, her well-beloved, and at the same time lamented its short-lived beauty; whilst the turtle deplored the loss of more substantial pleasures, and the wakeful lark hailed the rising light that re-animates the whole creation.
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