ADDITIONAL 'NOTES AND CORRECTIONS, (VOL. II.)
P. 110. At the close of first note on this page I would desire the reader on the
other hand to see what is said in. a recent admirable articlo on Gray in tlxe Quarterly
llevieiv (xciv. 1-4).
P. 113. Remove the marginal date from the opening of tho first paragraph to that
of the second, and substitute for tho former "1767, M, 89."
• P. 120. At close of the page, 157458, should bo 167-188.
P, 146. Walpolo's olioraoterization of (Mdsraith as an "inspired idiot," is repeated
in Forhes's .Beattie, and elicits from Mrs. Pumi an emphatic "very true," among the
manuscript notes of her old ago already mentioned.
P. 162. A good passage from one of Johnson's letters to Mrs. Thrale might here
have been added to tho last note. "Of tho imitation of my stile, in a criticism on
" Gray's Church-yard, I forgot to make mention, The autlumr is, I believe, utterly
" unknown, for Mr. Steovons oannot hunt him out; I know little of it, for though it
" was sent mo I never out the loaves • open, 1 had a letter with it raprtmeiiting it ta
" me as my own work j in suoh an aooount to the publiok there may lie humour, but to
" myself it was neither serious nor comical. I suspect the writer to bo wnHig-headtjd ;
" as to the noise which it .makes, 1 have never heard it, and am inclined to believe
" that few attacks either of ridioulo op inveetiva make muoh noise, but by the help of
" those they provoke." Piozzh Letfc.i'x, ii. 289.
P. 180, Johnson thus writes to Mrs. Tin-ale of " the tyranny of B——-i," *' Porn*
" B------i I do not quarrel with him ; to nogloct him u little will be miMoitmt, Ho
" moans only to bo frank and manly, and independent, and purhapn, m ycm wiy, «,
" little wise. To be frank ho thinks is to bo tiyniiinl, and to bis imtapumtunt in tu
"lie rude. Forgive him, doarost lady, tho fathor Imwuino nf lii« ntiwlHihavIonrn I tun
" afraid he learned part of mo." 36th July, 177$, Pinsl Lcttc.n, i, 277.
P. l!)8. Line thrt'o, "A very interoHting " Hhnuhl bo " Yot a vary interesting,"
P. 201. The titlo to this chapter, and tho head-lino from p. SJUU to p, iiljfi, wlimtld
have boon " DINNHMS AND TAMC,"
P. 2()S, The quotation from Forbes*a llcttttie should bo HI. 50 j tuid I may nth! ttmt
Mrs, Piozzi's omphatic maimseript cwnmont, in tho volumu nuw tijjou Insfwre me, on
Beattie's suggestion that perhaps Goldsmith " afftwtwl" wUmcfw, iM—"not h«
" indeed i"
P. 211. lloohostor exproBsod oxtwtly tlio rovorflo of thU In Bpeaking of ShadwelJ,
when he said that if ho had burnt all he wrote, and printed tdl ha Npokft, lw
have had more wit and humour than any othei* poet; and meoiuring QoIdnmiUi
Shndwell, we surely may rest perfectly Bfttlsifled with tho reliittw wwrnjiliriiiMiiuta
defloienoies of each,
I'. 217. At the close of the last note, I would add that it HI»IH« k» lmvi» \m<n
a triok for everybody that had lived in hia timo tit rupoal old Mttiritw of tiutilxniith tut
oocurronctiH within their own oxporionco. Hir Hurbfrt (!nift, thu authiir of fate? «««!
Matin-film, who tliud in Paris in iHlfl, rtvprtwiitwl hiiuMi'lf t«i dbwlw Nwliitr tw
Olivor's grwitoHt friond, though i do not (hid tmilcni'ii of hiw having known him &i all j
and in his ohanning little mamiiir Nuditsr nay* : " Lo i-huYttlior ('ruft, «jul »¥«it fit! IB
' raeilleur ami do (lolt'lsinitli, ot qui mMtiut, bitm du l'6tro, m'n. dit Mouvent qw* Se
1 systomo do Goldsmitlj fitait d'obligw jiwqu'au jHiint, de m mettw exaotoutaut tk»» la
' position de riudigent (ju'il avait Bomwrii ; ot quand nn lui rtjjmmlmil mm liWralitte
' iniprudentes, par ItiHtituilluH il «o mtlwUhmtt it In ditnmns d'un Inooatm, il m
' eontentait da r6poiuh"o : ' J'ai don ruKHuurooH, mol» efc m m«lhetirau »*amJt d»
' ' ressouvoea quo moi,'" 1 f! • 17.
P, 220, Ninetoeuth lino of note, " Hiutftrltw," »lnmW be "