Johnsoniana : or, Supplement to Boswell : being anecdotes and sayings of Dr Johnson / collected by Piozzi, Hawkins, Tyers .. [et al.]. . 7 t^*-. ? ? ? HAWKINS. 135 that she was likewise affected. I commended the Thraleswith great good-will to God. May my petitions havebeen heard! 279. Johnson9s throughout his life, poverty and distressedcircumstances seemed to be the strongest of all recom-mendations to his favour. When asked by one of hismost intimate friends, how he could bear to be sur-rounded by such necessitous and undeserving people as hehad about him, his answer was, If I
Johnsoniana : or, Supplement to Boswell : being anecdotes and sayings of Dr Johnson / collected by Piozzi, Hawkins, Tyers .. [et al.]. . 7 t^*-. ? ? ? HAWKINS. 135 that she was likewise affected. I commended the Thraleswith great good-will to God. May my petitions havebeen heard! 279. Johnson9s throughout his life, poverty and distressedcircumstances seemed to be the strongest of all recom-mendations to his favour. When asked by one of hismost intimate friends, how he could bear to be sur-rounded by such necessitous and undeserving people as hehad about him, his answer was, If I did not assist themno one else would, and they must be lost for want. 280. Rapidity of Composition. I wrote, said Johnson, the first seventy lines ofthe Vanity of Human Wishes, in the course of onemorning, in that small house beyond the church atHampstead. The whole number was composed before Icommitted a single couplet to writing. The same methodI pursued in regard to the Prologue on opening DruryLane Theatre. I did not afterwards change more than aword in it, and that was done at the remonstrance ofGarrick. I did not think his cr
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