No. II. VARIOUS IMITATIONS OF JOHNSON'S STYLE 284

NOTE ON THE WORDS "BALANCE OF

No. III.

MISERY"

No. IV.

CATALOGUE OR LIST OF DESIGNS

CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF

WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

No. V.

No. VI. DR. JOHNSON'S PORTRAITS

THE

LIFE

OF

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

JOHNSONIANA.

PART XXI.

ANECDOTES OF DR. JOHNSON,
BY JOHN NORTHCOTE, R. A. (1)

474. Poverty and Mortification.

Ar the time when Sir Joshua Reynolds resided in Newport Street, he one afternoon, accompanied by his sister Frances, paid a visit to the Miss Cotterells, who lived much in the fashionable world. Johnson was also of the party on this tea visit; and, at that time, being very poor, he was, as might be expected, rather shabbily apparelled. The maid servant, by accident, attended at the door to let them in, but did not know Johnson, who was the last of the three that came in; when the servant maid, seeing this uncouth and dirty figure of a man, and not conceiving that he could be one of the

(1) [From Northcote's "Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds."]