Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784

A. ALTERCATION BETWEEN DR. JOHNSON AND DEAN BARNARD. B. JOHNSON AND PRIESTLEY. C. THE CLUB IN IVY-LANE. D. THE ESSEX HEAD CLUB. E. MISS BURNEY'S ACCOUNT OF JOHNSON'S LAST DAYS....

[898] See _ante_, p. 166. He may have taken the more to Fox, as he had taken to Beauclerk (_ante_, i. 248), on account of his descent from Charles II. Fox was the great-great-gr...

_Aeneid_, i. 378. I fear that Twalmley met with the neglect that so commonly befalls inventors. In the _Gent. Mag_. 1783, p. 719, I find in the list of 'B-nk-ts,' Josiah Twamley...

find in the first two editions not _remembered_, but _recollected_. Perhaps this change is due to euphony, as _collected_ comes a few lines before. Horace Walpole, in one of his...

'I am sorry for the Dean of Exeter; if he dies I conclude the leaden mace of the Antiquarian Society will be given to Judge Barrington.' (He was 'second Justice of Chester.')

in the advance of life.' His _Iliad_ he had dedicated to Congreve, but 'to his latter works he took care to annex names dignified with titles, but was not very happy in his choi...

[308] 'I think a person who is terrified with the imagination of ghosts and spectres much more reasonable than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and pro...

[88] Yet W.G. Hamilton said:--'Burke understands everything but gaming and music. In the House of Commons I sometimes think him only the second man in England; out of it he is a...

'In fact we never were at Oxford at the same time, and the only interview I ever had with him was at Mr. Paradise's, where we dined together at his own request. He was particula...

'He has _seen_ ... Jews, Quakers, Mr. Pitt, the Royal Society, the Robinhood, Lord Chief-Justice Pratt, the Arts-and-Sciences, &c.' Romilly (_Life_, i. 168), in a letter dated M...