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 . le he was sitting in itquite alone. Dr. Panting, then master of the college, whom he called a fine Jacobite fellow, overheard him uttering this soliloquy in hisstrong emphatic voice : Well, I have a mind to see what is done inother places of learning. Ill go and visit the universities abroad. Ill He told Dr. Bumey that he never ?wrote any of his works that Mrcre printed, twice Burn
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 . le he was sitting in itquite alone. Dr. Panting, then master of the college, whom he called a fine Jacobite fellow, overheard him uttering this soliloquy in hisstrong emphatic voice : Well, I have a mind to see what is done inother places of learning. Ill go and visit the universities abroad. Ill He told Dr. Bumey that he never ?wrote any of his works that Mrcre printed, twice Burneys wonder at seeing several pages of his Lives of the Poets, in manuscript, withscarce a blot or erasure, drew this observation from him.—Malone. 2 The illustration (p, 26) represents the gateway of Pembroke College as it appeared in time. Subsequently to that period, both the gateway and the interior of the apart-ment have undergone such extensive alterations as to preserve no resemblance to their originalappearance.—Ed. 26 BOSWELLS LIFE OF JOHNSON [1729. go to France and Italy. Ill go to Padua.—And Ill mind my SLR Athenian blockhead is the worst of all PEMBBOKE COLLEGE GATEWAY. Dr. Adams told me that Johnson, while he was at Pembroke College, was caressed and loved by all about him, was a gay and frolicsomefellow, and passed there the happiest part of his life. But this is astriking proof of the fallacy of appearances, and how little any of us I had this anecdote from Dr. Adams, and Dr. Johnson confirmed it. Bramston, in his Man of Taste, has the same thought: Sure, of all blockheads, scholars are the worst.— meaning, however, is, that a scholar who is a blockhead must be the worst of allblockheads, because he is without excuse. But Bramston, in the assumed character of anignorant coxcomb, maintains that aU scholars are blockheads on account of their scholarship.—J. BoswELL, Jun. Johnson mav also have alluded to
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