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I had been invited quite unexpectedly to join a party, whom I met near the door of the playhouse, and I happened to have in my hand a large octavo of Johnson and Steevens's Shakspeare, which, the time not admitting of my carrying it home, of course went with me to the theatre.
And close by our Allahakbarries, Henry Harland's Mademoiselle Miss meets in the old friendly companionship Steevens's Land of the Dollar and Graham Tomson's Poems and Bob Stevenson's Velasquez and Harold Frédéric's Return of the O'Mahoney and Bernard Shaw's Cashel Byron's Profession in its rare paper cover, and George Moore's Strike at Arlingford, and Marriott Watson's Diogenes of London, and but of what use to go through the list, the long catalogue, to the end?
When I read that short and simple cablegram, the thought came to my mind that if only the greater number of modern rioters in language were compelled to hoard their words out of sheer necessity for the cable, we should have better results from the attempts at word-painting that now cumber the ground. And this brings me directly to a consideration of Steevens's work.
See also ante, ii. 100, 450, in. 23, 277, 331; and post, May 18, 1784, and Steevens's account of Johnson just before June 22, 1784. Thomas Shaw, D.D., author of Travels to Barbary and the Levant. See ante, iii. 314. The friend very likely was Boswell himself.
"It must be Maurice," said Giles. The question was soon decided by the doctor himself, who appeared giving directions to his hospital-sergeant. "Yes, Peter, take the tools up to a convenient spot near the breach. There's many a snug corner there in the ruins; and although we mayn't have as good an operation-room as in old 'Steevens's, yet we'll beat them hollow in cases."
The men of the National Observer and the Pall Mall were such keen fighters that they could not be kind or sentimental and they grew maudlinly sentimental over Steevens's engagement without a fight for it. They thought he was making a mistake, forgetting that it was his business, not theirs, if he was. He fought alone against them, but he held his place like a man and won.
Farmer, and John Reed, so hateful was his character. He was one of the wisest, most learned, but most spiteful of men. Johnstone's Parr, viii. 128. Boswell had felt Steevens's ill-nature. While he was carrying the Life of Johnson through the press, at a time when he was suffering from 'the most woeful return of melancholy, he wrote to Malone, 'Jan 29, 1791.
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