Johnsoniana : or, Supplement to Boswell : being anecdotes and sayings of Dr Johnson / collected by Piozzi, Hawkins, Tyers .. [et al.]. . r. Johnson visited Chester in 1774s in company with Mr.,Mrs., and Miss Thrale. We walked, he says, roundthe walls, which are complete, and contain one mile, threequarters, and one hundred and one yards : within them aremany gardens : they are very high, and two may walk verycommodiously side by side. On the inside is a rail: thereare towers from space to space, not very frequent, and Ithink not all complete. It would seem that, whileat Chester, a little dispu
Johnsoniana : or, Supplement to Boswell : being anecdotes and sayings of Dr Johnson / collected by Piozzi, Hawkins, Tyers .. [et al.]. . r. Johnson visited Chester in 1774s in company with Mr.,Mrs., and Miss Thrale. We walked, he says, roundthe walls, which are complete, and contain one mile, threequarters, and one hundred and one yards : within them aremany gardens : they are very high, and two may walk verycommodiously side by side. On the inside is a rail: thereare towers from space to space, not very frequent, and Ithink not all complete. It would seem that, whileat Chester, a little dispute between Johnson and took place; for the lady thus writes to Mr. Dup-pa : — Of those ill-fated walls Dr. Johnson might havelearned the extent from any one. He has since put mefairly out of countenance by saying, I have known myMistress fifteen years, and never saw her fairly out of hu-mour but on Chester wall : it was because he would keepMiss Thrale beyond her hour of going to bed to walk onthe wall, where, for the want of light, I apprehended someaccident to her — perhaps to him. (J) (1) [From the Piozzi MSS.] *. REED. 433 672. Vesuvius Caesar I have heard (says Mr. W. E. Surtees) my grand-mother, a daughter, by his first wife, of the Dean ofOssory (who married secondly Miss Charlotte Cotterell,)speak of Dr. Johnson, as having frequently seen himin her youth. On one occasion, probably about 1762-3,he spent a day or two in the country with her father, andwent with the family to see the house of a rich owner—all bows and smiles — seemed to exult inthe opportunity of displaying his costly articles of virtu tohis visitor, and, in going through their catalogue, observed, And this, Dr. Johnson, is Vesuvius Caesar/ Mygrandmother, then but a girl, could not suppress a titter;when the Doctor turned round, and thus, alike to thediscomfiture of the merchant and herself, sternly rebukedher aloud, What is the child laughing at? Ignoranceis a subject for p
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