Dr Johnson & Fanny Burney; being the Johnsonian passages from the works of Mme D'Arblay; . or a split pen, was to be caught; till at length, he hadthe happiness to espie an old hearth broom in the this, with hasty glee, he cut off a bristly wisp, which hehurried into his pocket-book; and afterwards formally folded insilver paper, and forwarded, in a frai^.k to Lord Oxford, for ; by whom the burlesque offering was hailed with good-humoured acclamation, and preserved through life. I suspect that this delightfully inflated bit of narrative reposesentirely upon the fol
Dr Johnson & Fanny Burney; being the Johnsonian passages from the works of Mme D'Arblay; . or a split pen, was to be caught; till at length, he hadthe happiness to espie an old hearth broom in the this, with hasty glee, he cut off a bristly wisp, which hehurried into his pocket-book; and afterwards formally folded insilver paper, and forwarded, in a frai^.k to Lord Oxford, for ; by whom the burlesque offering was hailed with good-humoured acclamation, and preserved through life. I suspect that this delightfully inflated bit of narrative reposesentirely upon the following brief entry in Miss Burneys EarlyDiary, Mr. Bewley accepted as a present or relic, a tuft of hishearth-broom, which my father secretly cut off, and sent to himin a frank. He thinks it more precious than pearls. (i. 169.) * Chessington Hall, a rambling and ruinous old house betwewiKingston and Epsom. At this date, though on high ground. Itstood in the middle of a wild and almost trackless common, whichseparated it effectually from the passing stranger. (Dobson,Fanny Burney, 13.). BAJvf U EL JCHHNS t>N )i i
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