Johnsoniana : or, Supplement to Boswell : being anecdotes and sayings of Dr Johnson / collected by Piozzi, Hawkins, Tyers .. [et al.]. . ies were perfect, andthat his mind was quite composed. This conversation lasted about a quarter of an hour, be-fore I had any suspicion that Mr. Langton had entered theparlour purposely to speak to me, and with a message fromDr. Johnson ; but as soon as I could summon sufficient T % 276 JOHNSONIANA. firmness to turn round, Mr. Langton solemnly said, TheDoctor is very sorry indeed not to see you ; but he desiredme to come and speak to you for him myself, and t
Johnsoniana : or, Supplement to Boswell : being anecdotes and sayings of Dr Johnson / collected by Piozzi, Hawkins, Tyers .. [et al.]. . ies were perfect, andthat his mind was quite composed. This conversation lasted about a quarter of an hour, be-fore I had any suspicion that Mr. Langton had entered theparlour purposely to speak to me, and with a message fromDr. Johnson ; but as soon as I could summon sufficient T % 276 JOHNSONIANA. firmness to turn round, Mr. Langton solemnly said, TheDoctor is very sorry indeed not to see you ; but he desiredme to come and speak to you for him myself, and to tellyou, that he hopes you will excuse him ; for he feels him-self too weak for such an interview. Touched to thevery heart by so kind, though sorrowful a message, ata moment that seemed so awful, I hastily expressed some-thing like thanks -to Mr. Langton, who was visibly affected;and, leaving my most affectionate respects, with everywarmly kind wish I could half utter, I hurried back to myfathers coach. The very next day, Monday, the 13th ofDecember, Dr. Johnson expired, and without a , it is thought, in his 277 Part AND REMARKS, BY DR. BEATTIE. (») 427* Johnsons Journey Johnsons Journey to the Hebrides contains manythings worthy of the author, and is, on the whole, veryentertaining. His account of the isles is, I dare say,very just: I never was there, and therefore can say no-thing of them, from my own knowledge. His accountof some facts, relating to other parts of Scotland, are notunexceptionable. Either he must have been misinformed,or he must have misunderstood his informer, in regard toseveral of his remarks on the improvement of the am surprised at one of his mistakes, which leads himonce or twice into perplexity and false conjecture. Heseems not to have known, that, in the common languageof Scotland, Irish and Erse are both used to denote thespeech of the Scots Highlanders ; and are as much sy-nonymous (at least, in many
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