Identifier: johnsonianaorsup00bosw (find matches)
Title: Johnsoniana : or, Supplement to Boswell : being anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson / collected by Piozzi, Hawkins, Tyers ... (et al.).
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Boswell, James, 1740-1795. Life of Samuel Johnson
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: UCLA Library, Preservation Department
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couplet Johnson meant, for I asked him. 196. Streatham Gallery. The following is a list of the prices which the Streathamcollection of portraits, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, brought atauction in May, 1816 : — Lord SandysLord LytteltonMrs. Piozzi - £. - 36 - 43 - 81 s. d.15 0 1 018 0 Goldsmith - 133 7 0 Sir J. ReynoldsSir R. Chambers - 128 - 84 2 00 0 David Garrick - 183 15 0 Baretti - 31 10 0 Dr. BurneyEdmund Burke - 84 - 252 0 00 0 Dr. Johnson - 378 0 0 Purchased byLady Downshire; his heir.Mr. Lyttelton ; his son.S. Boddington, Esq. ; a rich merchant.Duke of Bedford.R. Sharp, Esq. of Park Lane.Lady Chambers ; his widow.Dr. Charles Burney, Greenwich.— Stewart, Esq. : I know not who.Dr. C. Burney, of Greenwich, his son.R. Sharp, Esq.Watson Taylor, Esq. — H. L. P.1 1 (Dr. Johnsons — infinitely the finest of these portraits, as a work of art, andsecond not even to Mr. Burkes as an object of national interest — passed, at Mr.Watson Taylors sale, into the hands of Sir Robert Peel.)
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115 Part II.ANECDOTES AND SAYINGS OF JOHNSON, SELECTED FROM HAWKINS.* 197. Portable Books.Dr. Johnson used to say, that no man read long togetherwith a folio on his table. Books, said he, that youmay carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, arethe most useful after all. He would say, such booksform the mass of general and easy reading. He was agreat friend to books like the French Esprits dtrn tel;for example, Beauties of Watts &c. &c.: at which,said he, a man will often look and be tempted to go on,when he would have been frightened at books of a largersize, and of a more erudite appearance. 198. Conversation. He had a great opinion of the knowledge procured byconversation with intelligent and ingenious persons. Hisfirst question concerning such as had that character wasever, What is his conversation? 199. Christian Religion.The Duke of * # * 2 once said to Johnson, that everyreligion had a certain degree of morality in it. Ay,my lord, answered he, but the Christian

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