-Lord Elibank. - Edinburgh Castle.- Fingal. Credulity. Second Sight. Garrick and Foote as Com- - - Charlotte Lennox. Baretti's " Easy Lessons.”. Case - Coleman's "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion."- Mason's medies.-Gentility and Morality.—Charles II.-George I. -Trading Judges. - Christopher Smart. -Twiss's Travels. Addison's Italy. - "Lillybullers.”— Gibbon. — Patriot- ism.-Mr. Pritchard. Happiness.- General Oglethorpe. Middle-rate Poets. Patronage. Lord Bute. Good Friday. - London. - Commerce. - Value of Knowledge. Dinner at Owen Cambridge's.- Female Portrait Painters.- Opera."- Richard Brinsley Sheridan. - Modern Politics. "Sir Roger de Coverley."— Visit to Bedlam. - Sunday Consultations, — Gray's Letters. — Alchymy. - Johnson's THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. CHAPTER I. 1773. Driven Johnson leaves the Isle of Sky. - A Storm. into Col. His Appearance on a Sheltie. Sea Sickness.- -"Burnet's Own Times."-Rev. Hector M'Lean. Bayle, Leibnitz, and Clarke. Survey of Col. Grissipol. Cucumbers. Insular Life. Song, Hatyin foam' eri." — Breachaca.-Johnson's power of ridicule. - Happiness in a Cottage. Advice to Landlords.-Pretended Brother of Johnson. - Carte's Life of Ormond. Family of Col. Letters by Montrose. Sunday, Oct. 3.-JOSEPH reported that the wind was still against us. Dr. Johnson said, "A wind, or not a wind? that is the question;" for he can amuse himself at times with a little play of words, or rather sentences. I remember when he turned his cup at Aberbrothick, where we drank tea, he muttered, Claudite jam rivos, pueri. I must again and again apologize to fastidious readers, for recording such minute particulars. They prove the |