Johnsoniana : or, Supplement to Boswell : being anecdotes and sayings of Dr Johnson / collected by Piozzi, Hawkins, Tyers .. [et al.]. . old me. On the first of these daysamusements (I know not what year) Frank took offenceat some attentions paid his Desdemona, and walked awaynext morning to London in wrath. His master and Idriving the same road an hour after, overtook him. What is the matter, child, says Dr. Johnson, thatyou leave Streatham to-day ? Art sick ? He is jea-lous, whispered I. Are you jealous of your wife, youstupid blockhead ? cries out his master in another fellow hesit
Johnsoniana : or, Supplement to Boswell : being anecdotes and sayings of Dr Johnson / collected by Piozzi, Hawkins, Tyers .. [et al.]. . old me. On the first of these daysamusements (I know not what year) Frank took offenceat some attentions paid his Desdemona, and walked awaynext morning to London in wrath. His master and Idriving the same road an hour after, overtook him. What is the matter, child, says Dr. Johnson, thatyou leave Streatham to-day ? Art sick ? He is jea-lous, whispered I. Are you jealous of your wife, youstupid blockhead ? cries out his master in another fellow hesitated ; and, To be sure, Sir, I dont quiteapprove, Sir, was the stammering reply. Why, whatdo they do to her, man ? do the footmen kiss her ? No, Sir, no ! — Kiss my wife, Sir !— / hope not,Sir Why, what do they do to her, my lad ? Why nothing, Sir, I m sure, Sir. Why, then, goback directly and dance, you dog, do ; and let s hear nomore of such empty lamentations. 1 believe, however,that Francis was scarcely as much the object of personal kindness, as the representative of Dr. [l Miss Burney, the author of Evelina.]. c-J bv£.Fmden •... I piozzr. 69 Bathurst, for whose sake he would have loved any body,or any thing. When he spoke of negroes, he alwaysappeared to think them of a race naturally inferior, andmade few exceptions in favour of his own ; yet wheneverdisputes arose in his household among the many odd in-habitants of which it consisted, he always sided withFrancis against the others, whom he suspected (not un-justly, I believe) of greater malignity. 102. Poverty of Sentiment. It was never against people of coarse life that his con-tempt was expressed, while poverty of sentiment in menwho considered themselves to be company for the parlour,as he called it, was what he would not bear. A very ig-norant young fellow who had plagued us all for nine orten months, died at last consumptive : I think, saidMr. Johnson, when he heard the news, I am afraid, Ishould
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