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Article ANECDOTES OF DR. JOHNSON, &c. ← Page 4 of 8 →
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Anecdotes Of Dr. Johnson, &C.
into the company of any new person , one felt any wish or inclination to see him again . Johnson thought the poems published as translations from Ossian , had so little merit , that he said , " Sir , a man mi ght write such stuff for ever , if he would abandon his mind to it . " He said , " A man should pass a part of his time with the Iauo-hers , which ridiculous
by means any thing or particular about him mi ° -ht be presented to his view , and corrected . " I observed , "He must have been a bold laugher who would have ventured-to tell Dr Johnson of any of his particularities * . " Dr . Goldsmith said once to Dr . Johnson , " that he wished for some additional members to the Literary Clubj to give it an agreeable for" said hethere
variety ; , , " can now be nothing new among us ; we have travelled over one another ' s minds .- Johnson seemed a little angry , and said , " Sir , you have not travelled over my mind , I promise you . " Sir Joshua , however , thought Goldsmith right ; observing that " when people have lived a great deal together , they know what each of them will say on every subject ; A new understanding , therefore ; is desirable , because though it may only furnish the same sense upon a question which would have been
furnished by those with whom we are accustomed to live , yet this sense will have a different colouring ; and colouring is of much eiFect in every thing else as well as in painting . " Johnson used to say , " that he made it a constant rule to talk as \ vell as he could both as to sentiment and expression , by which . means , what had been . originally effort became familiar and easy . " The of thisSir Joshua
" consequence , " observes ; "Was , that " liis common conversation in all companies was such as to secure hins universal attention , as something above the usual colloquial style ivas expected . " Yet though Johnson had this habit in company , when another mode was necessary , in order to investigate truth , he could descend to intelliible to the meanest
a language g capacity . An instance of this was witnessed by Sir Joshua Reynolds , when they were present at an examination of a little blackguard boy , by Mr . Saunders Welch , the late Westminster Justice . Welch , who imagined that he was exalting himself in Dr . Johnson ' s eyes by using big words spoke in a manner that was utterly unintelli gible to the boy ; Dr Johnson , perceiving it , addressed himself to the boy , and c ' hano-ed the pompous phraseology into colloquial language ; Sir Joshua
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Anecdotes Of Dr. Johnson, &C.
into the company of any new person , one felt any wish or inclination to see him again . Johnson thought the poems published as translations from Ossian , had so little merit , that he said , " Sir , a man mi ght write such stuff for ever , if he would abandon his mind to it . " He said , " A man should pass a part of his time with the Iauo-hers , which ridiculous
by means any thing or particular about him mi ° -ht be presented to his view , and corrected . " I observed , "He must have been a bold laugher who would have ventured-to tell Dr Johnson of any of his particularities * . " Dr . Goldsmith said once to Dr . Johnson , " that he wished for some additional members to the Literary Clubj to give it an agreeable for" said hethere
variety ; , , " can now be nothing new among us ; we have travelled over one another ' s minds .- Johnson seemed a little angry , and said , " Sir , you have not travelled over my mind , I promise you . " Sir Joshua , however , thought Goldsmith right ; observing that " when people have lived a great deal together , they know what each of them will say on every subject ; A new understanding , therefore ; is desirable , because though it may only furnish the same sense upon a question which would have been
furnished by those with whom we are accustomed to live , yet this sense will have a different colouring ; and colouring is of much eiFect in every thing else as well as in painting . " Johnson used to say , " that he made it a constant rule to talk as \ vell as he could both as to sentiment and expression , by which . means , what had been . originally effort became familiar and easy . " The of thisSir Joshua
" consequence , " observes ; "Was , that " liis common conversation in all companies was such as to secure hins universal attention , as something above the usual colloquial style ivas expected . " Yet though Johnson had this habit in company , when another mode was necessary , in order to investigate truth , he could descend to intelliible to the meanest
a language g capacity . An instance of this was witnessed by Sir Joshua Reynolds , when they were present at an examination of a little blackguard boy , by Mr . Saunders Welch , the late Westminster Justice . Welch , who imagined that he was exalting himself in Dr . Johnson ' s eyes by using big words spoke in a manner that was utterly unintelli gible to the boy ; Dr Johnson , perceiving it , addressed himself to the boy , and c ' hano-ed the pompous phraseology into colloquial language ; Sir Joshua