Boswell's Life of Johnson 6
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It is evident, that what Johnson did in hopes of relief, indicated an extraordinary eagerness to retard his dissolution.
234 LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON [i7a4 About eight or ten dajrs before his deaths when Dr.
Brocklesby paid him his morning visits he seemed very low and desponding^ and said, ' I have been as a dying man all night' He then emphatically broke out in the words of Shakespeare : ' Canit thou not miniBter to a mind diaoaaod ; Pluok from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Base oat the written tro...ubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivions antidote^ Oleanse the staffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart?' To which Dr. Brocklesby readily answered, from the same great poet : '. . . . therein the patient Must minister to himself*' Johnson expressed himself much satisfied with the application.
On another day, after this, when talking on the subject of prayer. Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal, ' Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in oorpore sano,' and so on to the end of the tenth satire; but in running it quickly over, he happened in the line, ' Qui spatium vitse eztremum inter mnnera ponat,' to pronounce supremum for extremum\ at which Johnson's critical ear instantly took offence, and discoursing vehemently on the unmetrical effect of such a lapse, he showed himself as full as ever of the spirit of the grammarian.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is evident, that what Johnson did in hopes of relief, indicated an extraordinary eagerness to retard his dissolution.
234 LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON [i7a4 About eight or ten dajrs before his deaths when Dr.
Brocklesby paid him his morning visits he seemed very low and desponding^ and said, ' I have been as a dying man all night' He then emphatically broke out in the words of Shakespeare : ' Canit thou not miniBter to a mind diaoaaod ; Pluok from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Base oat the written tro...ubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivions antidote^ Oleanse the staffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart?' To which Dr. Brocklesby readily answered, from the same great poet : '. . . . therein the patient Must minister to himself*' Johnson expressed himself much satisfied with the application.
On another day, after this, when talking on the subject of prayer. Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal, ' Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in oorpore sano,' and so on to the end of the tenth satire; but in running it quickly over, he happened in the line, ' Qui spatium vitse eztremum inter mnnera ponat,' to pronounce supremum for extremum\ at which Johnson's critical ear instantly took offence, and discoursing vehemently on the unmetrical effect of such a lapse, he showed himself as full as ever of the spirit of the grammarian.
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