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Pope. _Epil, Sat_. II. 70.
[1467] So Smollett calls him in his _History of England_, iii. 16.
[1468] Six of these twelve guineas Johnson appears to have borrowed from
Mr. Allen, the printer. See Hawkins's _Life of Johnson_, p. 366
n. MALONE.
[1469] Written by mistake for 1759. On the _outside_ of the letter of
the 13th was written by another hand--'Pray acknowledge the receipt of
this by return of post, without fail.' MALONE.
[1470] Catherine Chambers, Mrs. Johnson's maid-servant. She died in
October, 1767. MALONE. See _post_, ii. 43.
[1471] This letter was written on the second leaf of the preceding,
addressed to Miss Porter. MALONE.
[1472] Mrs. Johnson probably died on the 20th or 21st January, and was
buried on the day this letter was written. MALONE. On the day on which
his mother was buried Johnson composed a prayer, as being 'now about to
return to the common comforts and business of the world.' _Pr. and Med_.
p. 38. After his wife''s death he had allowed forty days to pass before
his 'return to life.' See _ante_, p. 234, note 2.
[1473] See _ante_, p. 80.
[1474] Barnaby Greene had just published _The Laureat, a Poem_, in which
Johnson is abused. It is in the February list of books in the _Gent.
Mag_. for 1765.
[1475] Sir Cloudesly Shovel's monument is thus mentioned by Addison in
_The Spectator_, No. 26:--'It has very often given me great offence;
instead of the brave rough English Admiral, which was the distinguishing
character of that plain gallant man, he is represented on his tomb by
the figure of a beau, dressed in a long periwig, and reposing himself
upon velvet cushions under a canopy of state.'
[1476]
'That live-long wig, which Gorgon's self might own,
Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone.'
Pope's _Moral Essays_, iii. 295.
[1477] Milton's Epigram is in his _Sylvarum Liber_, and is entitled _In
Effigiei ejus Sculptorem_.
[1478] Johnson's acquaintance, Bishop Newton (_post_, June 3, 1784),
published an edition of _Milton_.
[1479] It was no doubt by the Master of Emanuel College, his friend
Dr. Farmer (_ante_, p. 368), that Johnson was promised 'an habitation'
there.
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