. The life of Samuel Johnson, , comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons. men and certain women are made foreach other ; and that they cannot be happy if they miss their counter-parts. Johnson : To be sure not, Sir. I believe marriages would ingeneral be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by theLord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circum-stances, without the parties having any choice in the matter. I wished to have stay
. The life of Samuel Johnson, , comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons. men and certain women are made foreach other ; and that they cannot be happy if they miss their counter-parts. Johnson : To be sure not, Sir. I believe marriages would ingeneral be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by theLord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circum-stances, without the parties having any choice in the matter. I wished to have stayed at Birmingham to-night, to have talked morewith Mr. Hector ; but my friend was impatient to reach his nativecity; so we drove on that stage in the dark, and were long pensiveand silent. When we came within the focus of the Lichfield lamps, Now, said he, we are getting out of a state of death. AVe putup at the Three Crowns, not one of the great inns, but a good old-faahioued one, which was kept by Mr. Wilkins, and was the very nezt Ace 67.] BOSWELLS LIFE OF JOHNSON. 287 house to that in which Johnson was born and brought up, and whichwas still his o^m property.^ We had a comfortable supper, and got. THE THBEE CEOWXS INN. into high spirits. I felt all my Toryism glow in this old capital ofStaffordshire. I could have offered incense genio loci; and I indulgedin libations of that ale, which Boniface, in The Beaux Stratagem,recommends with such an eloquent jollity. Next morning he introduced me to Mrs. Lucy Porter, his step-daughter. She was now an old maid, with much simplicity of had never been in London. Her brother, a captain in the navy,had left her a fortune of ten thousand pounds, about a thud of whichshe had laid out in building a stately house, and making a handsomegarden, in an elevated situation in Lichfield. Johnson, when here byhimself, used to live at her house. She reverenced him, and he had aparental tenderness for her. We then visited Mr. Peter Garrick
Size: 1746px × 1432px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorboswellj, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1850, bookyear1859
