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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to hear of again ; and what a restraint would
it be on all social intercourse, if one were to suppose that
every word one utters would be entered in a register ! Mr.
Boswell indeed says, that there are few men who need be
under any apprehension of that sort. This is true ; and
the argument he founds on it would be good, if he had
published nothing but what Dr. Johnson and he said and
did ; for Johnson, it seems, knew that the publication
would be made, and did not object to it: but Mr. Boswell
has published the sayings and doings of other people, who
never consented to any such thing ; and who little thought,
when they were doing their best to entertain and amuse
the two travellers, that a story would be made of it, and
laid before the public. I approve of the Greek proverb,
that says, I hate a bottle companion with a memory. If
my friend, after eating a bit of mutton with me, should
go to the coffee-house, and there give an account of every
thing that had passed, I believe I should not take it well.
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Part XVIII
ANECDOTES AND REMARKS,
BY THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM WINDHAM .(1)
[To the kindness of Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S., the Editor is indebted for
the following Memoranda, extracted from Mr. Windhams Diary of the Con-
versations he had with Dr. Johnson during his visit at Ashbourne ; where
he arrived on the 30th of August, 1784, leaving it, as he states, with
regret, at half-past one on the 1st of September.]
434. Homer.
The source of every thing, either in or out of nature,
that can serve the purpose of poetry, is to be found in
Homer ; — every species of distress, every modification of
heroic character, battles, storms, ghosts, incantations, &c.
435. Odyssey.
Dr. Johnson said, he had never read through the
Odyssey completely in the original.
436. Johnsons first Declamation.
Anecdote of his first declamation at College, that
having neglected to write it till the morning of his being
to repeat it, and having only one copy, he got part of it
by heart, while he was walking into the Hall,

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