called "The Harleian Miscellany." The cata- | He was told that the Earl of Chesterfield was logue was completed: and the Miscellany, in a friend to his undertaking; and in consequence 1749, was published in eight quarto volumes. of that intelligence, he published, in 1747, The In this business Johnson was a day-labourer for Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language, immediate subsistence, not unlike Gustavus addressed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer, Vasa working in the mines of Dalecarlia. What Earl of Chesterfield, one of his Majesty's princi. Wilcox, a bookseller of eminence in the Strand, pal Secretaries of State. Mr. Whitehead, aftersaid to Johnson, on his first arrival in town, was wards Poet Laureat, undertook to convey the now almost confirmed. He lent our author five manuscript to his Lordship: the consequence guineas, and then asked him, "How do you was an invitation from Lord Chesterfield to the mean to earn your livelihood in this town?" "By author. A stronger contrast of characters could my literary labours," was the answer. Wil- not be brought together; the Nobleman, celecox, staring at him, shook his head: "By your brated for his wit, and all the graces of polite literary labours!-You had better buy a porter's behaviour; the Author, conscious of his own knot." Johnson used to tell this anecdote to merit, towering in idea above all competition, Mr. Nichols; but he said, "Wilcox was one of versed in scholastic logic, but a stranger to the my best friends, and he meant well." In fact, arts of polite conversation, uncouth, vehement, Johnson, while employed in Gray's-Inn, may be and vociferous. The coalition was too unnatusaid to have carried a porter's knot. He paused ral. Johnson expected a Mæcenas, and was occasionally to peruse the book that came to his disappointed. No patronage, no assistance folhand. Osborne thought that such curiosity [lowed. Visits were repeated; but the reception tended to nothing but delay, and objected to it was not cordial. Johnson one day was left a with all the pride and insolence of a man who full hour, waiting in an antichamber, till a genknew that he paid daily wages. In the dispute tleman should retire, and leave his lordship at that of course ensued, Osborne, with that rough- leisure. This was the famous Colley Cibber. ness which was natural to him, enforced his ar- Johnson saw him go, and fired with indignation, gument by giving the lie. Johnson seized a rushed out of the house. What Lord Chesfolio and knocked the bookseller down. This terfield thought of his visiter may be seen in a story has been related as an instance of John- passage in one of that Nobleman's letters to his son's ferocity; but merit cannot always take the son. "There is a man, whose moral charac spurns of the unworthy with a patient spirit.* ter, deep learning, and superior parts, I acknowThat the history of an author must be found ledge, admire, and respect; but whom it is so in his works, is, in general, a true observation; impossible for me to love, that I am almost in a and was never more apparent than in the pre- fever whenever I am in his company. His figure sent narrative. Every era of Johnson's life is (without being deformed) seems made to disfixed by his writings. In 1744, he published grace or ridicule the common structure of the the life of Savage; and then projected a new edi- human body. His legs and arms are never in tion of Shakspeare. As a prelude to that de- the position which, according to the situation of sign, he published, in 1745, "Miscellaneous Ob- his body, they ought to be in, but constantly servations on the Tragedy of Macbeth, with Re- employed in committing acts of hostility upon marks on Sir Thomas Hanmer's Edition;" to the Graces. He throws any where, but down which were prefixed, "Proposals for a new Edi- his throat, whatever he means to drink and tion of Shakspeare," with a specimen. Of this mangles what he means to carve. Inattentive pamphlet Warburton, in the Preface to Shaks- to all the regards of social life, he mis-times and peare, has given his opinion: "As to all those mis-places every thing. He disputes with heat things, which have been published under the indiscriminately, mindless of the rank, charactitle of Essays, Remarks, Observations, &c. on ter, and situation of those with whom he disShakspeare, if you except some critical notes on putes. Absolutely ignorant of the several graMacbeth, given as a specimen of a projected edi-dations of familiarity and respect, he is exactly tion, and written, as appears, by a man of parts and genius, the rest are absolutely below a serious notice." But the attention of the public was not excited; there was no friend to promote a subscription; and the project died, to revive at a future day. A new undertaking, however, was soon after proposed; namely, an English Dictionary upon an enlarged plan. Several of the most opulent booksellers had meditated a work of this kind; and the agreement was soon adjusted between the parties. Emboldened by this connexion, Johnson thought of a better ha- In the course of the year 1747, Garrick, in bitation than he had hitherto known. He had conjunction with Lacy, became patentee of lodged with his wife in courts and alleys about Drury-Lane playhouse. For the opening of the Strand; but now, for the purpose of carrying the theatre at the usual time, Johnson wrote on his arduous undertaking, and to be nearer for his friend the well-known prologue, which, his printer and friend, Mr. Strahan, he ventured to say no more of it, may at least be placed on to take a house in Gough-square, Fleet-street. a level with Pope's to the tragedy of Cato. The playhouse being now under Garrick's direction. * Mr. Boswell says, "The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat the same to his superiors, his equals, and his inferiors; and therefore by a necessary consequence, is absurd to two of the three. Is it possible to love such a man? No. The utmost I can do for him is, to consider him a respectable Hottentot." Such was the idea entertained by lord Chesterfield. After the incident of Colley Cibber, Johnson never repeated his visits. In his high and decisive tone, he has been often heard to say, "Lord Chesterfield is a Wit among Lords, and a Lord among Wits." † Dr. Johnson denies the whole of this story. See Bos him; but it was not in his shop, it was in my own cham-well's Life. vol. i. p. 128. Oct. edit. 1804. Č. ber.'" f Letter CCXII. (b) Johnson thought the opportunity fair to think of blished a club, consisting of ten in number at his tragedy of Irene, which was his whole stock Horseman's, in Ivy-Lane, on every Tuesday on his first arrival in town, in the year 1737. evening. This is the first scene of social life to That play was accordingly put into rehearsal in which Johnson can be traced out of his own January, 1749. As a precursor to prepare the house. The members of this little society were, way, and to awaken the public attention, The Samuel Johnson; Dr. Salter (father of the late Vanity of Human Wishes, a poem in imitation of Master of the Charter-House;) Dr. Hawkesthe Tenth Satire of Juvenal, by the Author of worth; Mr. Ryland, a merchant; Mr. Payne, a London, was published in the same month. In bookseller, in Paternoster-row; Mr. Samuel the Gentleman's Magazine, for February, 1749, Dyer, a learned young man; Dr. Wm. M'Ghie, a we find that the tragedy of Irene was acted at Scotch physician; Dr. Edmund Barker, a young Drury-Lane, on Monday, February the 6th, and physician; Dr. Bathurst, another young physifrom that time, without interruption, to Monday, cian; and Sir John Hawkins. This list is given February, the 20th being in all thirteen nights. by Sir John, as it should seem, with no other Since that time it has not been exhihited on any view than to draw a spiteful and malevolent chastage. Irene may be added to some other plays racter of almost every one of them. Mr. Dyer, in our language, which have lost their place whom Sir John says he loved with the affection in the theatre, but continue to please in the of a brother, meets with the harshest treatment, closet. During the representation of this piece, because it was his maxim, that to live in peace Johnson attended every night behind the scenes. | with mankind, and in a temper to do good offices, Conceiving that his character as an author re- was the most essential part of our duty. That noquired some ornament for his person, he chose tion of moral goodness gave umbrage to Sir John upon that occasion to decorate himself with a Hawkins, and drew down upon the memory of handsome waistcoat, and a gold-laced hat. The his friend the bitterest imputations. Mr. Dyer, late Mr. Topham Beauclerc, who had a great however, was admired and loved through life. deal of that humour, which pleases the more for He was a man of literature. Johnson loved to seeming undesigned, used to give a pleasant de-enter with him into a discussion of metaphysical, scription of this green-room finery, as related by the author himself; "But," said Johnson, with great gravity, "I soon laid aside my gold-laced hat, lest it should make me proud." The amount of the three benefit nights for the tragedy of Irene, it is to be feared, was not very considerable, as the profit, that stimulating motive, never invited the author to another dramatic attempt. Some years afterwards, when the present writer was intimate with Garrick, and knew Johnson to be in distress, he asked the manager why he did not produce another tragedy for his Litchfield friend? Garrick's answer was remarkable: "When Johnson writes tragedy, declamation roars, and passion sleeps: when Shakspeare wrote, he dipped his pen in his own heart." There may, perhaps, be a degree of sameness in this regular way of tracing an author from one work to another, and the reader may feel the effect of a tedious inonotony: but in the life of Johnson there are no other landmarks. He was now forty years old, and had mixed but little with the world. He followed no profession, transacted no business, and was a stranger to what is called a town life. We are now arrived at the brightest period he had hitherto known. His name broke out upon mankind with a degree of lustre that promised a triumph over all his difficulties. The Life of Savage was admired as a beautiful and instructive piece of biography. The two imitations of Juvenal were thought to rival even the excellence of Pope; and the tragedy of Irene, though uninteresting on the stage, was universally admired in the closet, for the propriety of the sentiments, the richness of the language, and the general harmony of the whole composition. His fame was widely diffused; and he had made his agreement with the booksellers for his English Dictionary at the sum of fifteen hundred guineas; a part of which was to be, from time to time, advanced in proportion to the progress of the work. This was a certain fund for his support, without being obliged to write fugitive pieces for the petty supplies of the day. Accordingly we find that, in 1749, he esta moral, and critical subjects; in those conflicts, exercising his talents, and, according to his custom, always contending for victory. Dr. Bathurst was the person on whom Johnson fixed his affection. He hardly ever spoke of him without tears in his eyes. It was from him, who was a native of Jamaica, that Johnson received into his service Frank,* the black servant, whom, on account of his master, he valued to the end of his life. At the time of instituting the club in Ivy-Lane, Johnson had projected the Rambler. The title was most probably suggested by the Wanderer; a poem which he mentions with the warmest praise, in the Life of Savage. With the same spirit of independence with which he wished to live, it was now his pride to write. He communicated his plan to none of his friends; he desired no assistance, relying entirely on his own fund, and the protection of the Divine Being, which he implored in a solemn form of prayer, composed by himself for the occasion. Having formed a resolution to undertake a work that might be of use and honour to his country, he thought, with Milton, that this was not to be obtained "but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and send out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Having invoked the special protection of Heaven, and by that act of piety fortified his mind, he began the great work of the Rambler. The first number was published on Tuesday, March the 20th, 1750; and from that time was continued regularly every Tuesday and Saturday, for the space of two years, when it finally closed, on Saturday, March 14, 1752. As it began with motives of piety, so it appears that the same religious spirit glowed with unabating ardour to the last. His conclusion is: "The Essays professedly serious, if I have been able to execute my own intentions, will be found exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity, without any *See Gent. Mag. vol. lxxi. p. 190. accommodation to the licentiousness and levity | on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns, of the present age. I therefore look back on in his Paradise Lost; dedicated to the Universithis part of my work with pleasure, which no ties of Oxford and Cambridge." While the man shall diminish or augment. I shall never book was in the press, the proof-sheets were envy the honours which wit and learning obtain shown to Johnson at the Ivy-Lane club, by in any other cause, if I can be numbered among Payne, the bookseller, who was one of the memthe writers who have given ardour to virtue, and bers. No man in that Society was in possesconfidence to truth." The whole number of Es- sion of the authors from whom Lauder professed says amounted to two hundred and eight. Ad- to make his extracts. The charge was believed, dison's, in the Spectator, are more in number, and the contriver of it found his way to Johnson; but not half in point of quantity: Addison was who is represented by Sir John Hawkins, not not bound to publish on stated days; he could indeed as an accomplice in the fraud, but through watch the ebb and flow of his genius, and send motives of malignity to Milton, delighting in the his paper to the press when his own taste was detection, and exulting that the poet's reputation satisfied. Johnson's case was very different. would suffer by the discovery. More malice to He wrote singly and alone. In the whole pro- a deceased friend cannot well be imagined. gress of the work he did not receive more than Hawkins adds, "that he wished well to the arten essays. This was a scanty contribution. gument must be inferred from the preface, which For the rest, the author has described his situa-indubitably was written by him." The preface, tion. "He that condemns himself to compose it is well known, was written by Johnson, and on a stated day, will often bring to his task an for that reason is inserted in this edition. But attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an if Johnson approved of the argument, it was no imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted longer than while he believed it founded in truth. with anxieties, a body languishing with disease: Let us advert to his own words in that very prehe will labour on a barren topic, till it is too late face. "Among the inquiries to which the arto change it; or, in the ardour of invention, dif- dour of criticism has naturally given occasion, fuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which none is more obscure in itself, or more worthy of the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer rational curiosity, than a retrospection of the judgment to examine or reduce." Of this excel-progress of this mighty genius in the construclent production, the number sold on each day did not amount to five hundred: of course the bookseller, who paid the author four guineas a week, did not carry on a successful trade. His generosity and perseverance deserve to be commended; and happily, when the collection appeared in volumes, were amply rewarded. Johnson lived to see his labours flourish in a tenth edition. His posterity, as an ingenious French writer has said on a similar occasion, began in his lifetime. tion of his work; a view of the fabric gradually rising, perhaps from small beginnings, till its foundation rests in the centre, and its turrets sparkle in the skies; to trace back the structure, through all its varieties, to the simplicity of the first plan; to find what was projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed, and from what stores the materials were collected; whether its founder dug them from the quarries of nature, or demolished other buildings to embellish his In the beginning of 1750, soon after the Ram- own." These were the motives that induced bler was set on foot, Johnson was induced by the Johnson to assist Lauder with a preface: and arts of a vile impostor to lend his assistance, are not these the motives of a critic and a schoduring a temporary delusion, to a fraud not to lar? What reader of taste, what man of real be paralleled in the annals of literature.* One knowledge, would not think his time well emLauder, a native of Scotland, who had been a ployed in an inquiry so curious, so interesting, teacher in the University of Edinburgh, had con- and instructive? If Lauder's facts were really ceived a mortal antipathy to the name and cha- true, who would not be glad, without the smallracter of Milton. His reason was, because the est tincture of malevolence, to receive real inprayer of Pamela, in Sir Philip Sidney's Arca- formation? It is painful to be thus obliged to dia, was, as he supposed, maliciously inserted vindicate a man who, in his heart, towered above by the great poet in an edition of the Eikon the petty arts of fraud and imposition, against an Basilike, in order to fix an imputation of impiety injudicious biographer, who undertook to be his on the memory of the murdered king. Fired editor, and the protector of his memory. Anowith resentment, and willing to reap the profits ther writer, Dr. Towers, in an Essay on the Life of a gross imposition, this man collected from and Character of Dr. Johnson, seems to counteseveral Latin poets, such as Masenius the Je-nance this calumny. He says, "It can hardly suit, Staphorstius a Dutch divine, Beza, and others, all such passages as bore any kind of resemblance to different places in the Paradise Lost; and these he published from time to time, in the Gentleman's Magazine, with occasional interpolations of lines, which he himself translated from Milton. The public credulity swallowed all with eagerness; and Milton was supposed to be guilty of plagiarism from inferior modern writers. The fraud succeeded so well, that Lauder collected the whole into a volume, and advertised it under the title of "An Essay *It has since been paralleled, in the case of the Shakspeare MSS. by a yet more vile impostor. be doubted, but that Johnson's aversion to Milton's politics was the cause of that alacrity with which he joined with Lauder in his infamous attack on our great epic poet, and which induced him to assist in that transaction." These words would seem to describe an accomplice, were they not immediately followed by an express declaration, that Johnson was unacquainted with the imposture. Dr. Towers adds, "It seems to have been by way of making some compensation to the memory of Milton, for the share he had in the attack of Lauder, that Johnson wrote the Prologue, spoken by Garrick, at Drury-Lane Theatre, 1750, on the performance of the Masque of Comus, for the benefit of Milton's grand of his guilt, than to stand forth the convicted champion of a lie; and for this purpose he drew up, in the strongest terms, a recantation, in a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Douglass, which Lauder signed, and published in the year 1751. That piece will remain a lasting memorial of the abhorrence with which Johnson beheld a violation of truth. Mr. Nichols, whose attachment to his illustrious friend was unwearied, showed him, in 1780, a book called "Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton," in which the affair of Lauder was renewed with virulence, and a poetical scale in the Literary Magazine, 1758, (when Johnson had ceased to write in that collection) was urged as an additional proof of deliberate malice. He read the libellous passage with attention, and instantly wrote on the margin: "In the business of Lauder I was deceived, partly by thinking the man too frantic to be fraudulent. Of the poetical scale quoted from the Magazine I am not the author. I fancy it was put in after I had quitted that work; for I not only did not write it, but I do not remember it." As a critic and a scholar, Johnson was willing to receive what numbers, at the time, believed to be true information: when he found that the whole was a forgery, he renounced all connexion with the author. daughter." Dr. Towers is not free from prejudice; but, as Shakspeare has it, "he begets a temperance, to give it smoothness." He is, therefore, entitled to a dispassionate answer. When Johnson wrote the prologue, it does not appear that he was aware of the malignant artifices practised by Lauder. In the postscript to Johnson's preface, a subscription is proposed, for relieving the grand-daughter of the author of Paradise Lost. Dr. Towers will agree that this shows Johnson's alacrity in doing good. That alacrity showed itself again in the letter printed in the European Magazine, January, 1785, and there said to have appeared originally in the General Advertiser, 4th April, 1750, by which the public were invited to embrace the opportunity of paying a just regard to the illustrious dead, united with the pleasure of doing good to the living. The letter adds, "to assist industrious indigence, struggling with distress, and debilitated by age, is a display of virtue, and an acquisition of happiness and honour. Who ever, therefore, would be thought capable of pleasure in reading the works of our incomparable Milton, and not so destitute of gratitude as to refuse to lay out a trifle, in a rational and elegant entertainment, for the benefit of his living remains, for the exercise of their own virtue, the increase of their reputation, and the conscious- In March 1752, he felt a severe stroke of afness of doing good, should appear at Drury-fliction in the death of his wife. The last numLane Theatre, to-morrow, April 5, when COMUS ber of the Rambler, as already mentioned, was will be performed for the benefit of Mrs. Eliza- on the 14th of that month. The loss of Mrs. beth Foster, grand-daughter to the author, and Johnson was then approaching, and probably the only surviving branch of his family. Nota was the cause that put an end to those admirabene, there will be a new prologue on the oc- ble periodical essays. It appears that she died casion, written by the author of Irene, and on the 28th of March: in a memorandum, at spoken by Mr. Garrick." The man who had the foot of the Prayers and Meditations, that is thus exerted himself to serve the grand-daughter, called her Dying Day. She was buried at cannot be supposed to have entertained personal Bromley, under the care of Dr. Hawkesworth. malice to the grand-father. It is true, that the Johnson placed a Latin inscription on her tomb, malevolence of Lauder, as well as the impostures in which he celebrated her beauty. With the of Archibald Bower, were fully detected by the singularity of his prayers for his deceased wife, labours, in the cause of truth, of the Rev. Dr. from that time to the end of his days, the world Douglas, the late Lord Bishop of Salisbury. is sufficiently acquainted. On Easter-day, 22d April, 1764, his memorandum says: "Thought on Tetty, poor dear Tetty; with my eyes full. Went to church. After sermon I recommended Tetty in a prayer by herself; and my father, mother, brother, and Bathurst, in another. did it only once, so far as might be lawful for me." In a prayer, January 23, 1759, the day on which his mother was buried, he commends, as far as may be lawful, her soul to God, imploring for her whatever is most beneficial to her in her present state. In this habit he persevered to the end of his days. The Rev. Mr. Strahan, the editor of the Prayers and Meditations, observes, "That Johnson, on some occasions, prays that the Almighty may have had mercy on his wife and Mr. Thrale; evidently supposing their sentence to have been already passed in the Divine Mind; and by consequence, proving, that he had no belief in a state of purgatory, and no reason for praying for the dead that could impeach the sincerity of his profession as a Protestant." Mr. Strahan adds, "That, in praying for the regretted tenants of the grave, Johnson conformed to a practice which has been retained by many learned members of the Established Church, though the Liturgy no longer admits it. If where the tree falleth, there it shall be; if our state, at the close of life, is to be the measure of -"Diram qui contudit Hydram, But the pamphlet, entitled, "Milton vindicated our final sentence, then prayers for the dead, being visibly fruitless, can be regarded only as the vain oblations of superstition. But of all superstitions this, perhaps, is one of the least unamiable, and most incident to a good mind. If our sensations of kindness be intense, those, whom we have revered and loved, death cannot wholly seclude from our concern. It is true, for the reason just mentioned, such evidences of our surviving affection may be thought ill-judged; but surely they are generous, and some natural tenderness is due even to a superstition, which thus originates in piety and benevolence." These sentences, extracted from the Rev. Mr. Strahan's preface, if they are not a full justification, are, at least, a beautiful apology. It will not be improper to add what Johnson himself has said on the subject. Being asked by Mr. Boswell,* what he thought of purgatory as believed by the Roman Catholics? His answer was, "It is a very harmless doctrine. They are of opinion, that the generality of mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve everlasting punishment; nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits; and, therefore, that God is graciously pleased to allow a middle state, where they may be purified by certain degrees of suffering. You see there is nothing unreasonable in this; and if it be once established that there are souls in purgatory, it is as proper to pray for them, as for our brethren of mankind who are yet in this life." This was Dr. Johnson's guess into futurity; and to guess is the utmost that man can do. "Shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it." | pease melancholy reflections, Johnson took her home to his house in Gough-square. In 1755, Garrick gave her a benefit-play, which produced two hundred pounds. In 1766, she published, by subscription, a quarto volume of Miscella nies, and increased her little stock to three hundred pounds. That fund, with Johnson's protection, supported her through the remainder of her life. During the two years in which the Rambler was carried on, the Dictionary proceeded by slow degrees. In May 1752, having composed a prayer preparatory to his return from tears and sorrow to the duties of life, he resumed his grand design, and went on with vigour, giving, however, occasional assistance to his friend Dr. Hawkesworth in the Adventurer, which began soon after the Rambler was laid aside. Some of the most valuable essays in that collection were from the pen of Johnson. The Dictionary was completed towards the end of 1754; and, Cave being then no more, it was a mortification to the author of that noble addition to our language, that his old friend did not live to see the triumph of his labours. In May 1755, that great work was published. Johnson was desirous that it should come from one who had obtained academical honours; and for that purpose his friend, the Rev. Thomas Wharton, obtained for him, in the preceding month of February, a diploma for a master's degree from the University of Oxford. Garrick, on the publi cation of the Dictionary, wrote the following lines; toil, That one English soldier can beat ten of France, ours. It is, perhaps, needless to mention, that Forty was the number of the French academy, at the time when their Dictionary was published to settle their language. Mrs. Johnson left a daughter, Lucy Porter, by her first husband. She had contracted a friendship with Mrs. Anne Williams, the daughter of Zachary Williams, a physician of eminence in South Wales, who had devoted more than thirty years of a long life to the study of the longitude, and was thought to have made great advances towards that important discovery: His letters to Lord Halifax, and the Lords of the Admiralty, partly corrected and partly written by Dr. Johnson, are still extant in the hands of Mr. Nichols. We there find Dr. Williams, in the eighty-third year of his age, stating, that he had prepared an instrument, which might be called an epitome or miniature of the terraqueous globe, showing, with the assistance of tables constructed by himself, the variations of the magnetic needle, and ascertaining the longitude for the safety of navigation. It appears that In the course of the winter preceding this grand this scheme had been referred to Sir Isaac New-publication, the late Earl of Chesterfield gave ton; but that great philosopher excusing himself two essays in the periodical paper called The on account of his advanced age, all applications World, dated November 28, and December 5, were useless till 1751, when the subject was re- 1754, to prepare the public for so important a ferred, by order of Lord Anson, to Dr. Bradley, work. The original plan, addressed to his the celebrated professor of astronomy. His re- Lordship in the year 1747, is there mentioned in port was unfavourable, though it allows that a terms of the highest praise; and this was underconsiderable progress had been made. Dr. stood, at the time, to be a courtly way of soliWilliams, after all his labour and expense, died citing a dedication of the Dictionary to himself. in a short time after, a melancholy instance of Johnson treated this civility with disdain. He unrewarded merit. His daughter possessed unsaid to Garrick and others, "I have sailed a common talents, and, though blind, had an ala- long and painful voyage round the world of the crity of mind that made her conversation agree-cock-boats to tow me into harbour?" He had English language, and does he now send out two able, and even desirable. To relieve and ap-said, in the last number of the Rambler, that Life of Johnson, vol. i. p. 328. 4to edition. (See Gentleman's Magazine for Nov. and Dec. 1787. 1 See Gentleman's Magazine for 1787, p. 1042. "having laboured to maintain the dignity of virtue, I will not now degrade it by the meanness of dedication." Such a man, when he had |
