Life of Johnson, volume 4
Life of Johnson, volume 4
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179, 186, 190. Leslie wrote of Lady Corke in1834 (_Autobiographical Recollections_, i. 137, 243):--'Notwithstandingher great age, she is very animated. The old lady, who was a lion-hunterin her youth, is as much one now as ever. ' She ran after a Boston negronamed Prince Saunders, who 'as he put his Christian name "Prince" on hiscards without the addition of Mr. , was believed to be a native Africanprince, and soon became a lion of the first magnitude in fashionablecircles. ' She died in 1840.
...[350] 'A lady once ventured to ask Dr. Johnson how he liked Yorick's[Sterne's] _Sermons_. "I know nothing about them, madam, " was his reply. But some time afterwards, forgetting himself, he severely censured them. The lady retorted:--"I understood you to say, Sir, that you had neverread them. " "No, Madam, I did read them, but it was in a stage-coach; Ishould not have even deigned to look at them had I been at large. "Cradock's _Memoirs_, p. 208.
[351] See _ante_, iii. 382, note 1.
[352] Next day I endeavoured to give what had happened the mostingenious turn I could, by the following verses:-- To THE HONOURABLE Miss MONCKTON.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
179, 186, 190. Leslie wrote of Lady Corke in1834 (_Autobiographical Recollections_, i. 137, 243):--'Notwithstandingher great age, she is very animated. The old lady, who was a lion-hunterin her youth, is as much one now as ever. ' She ran after a Boston negronamed Prince Saunders, who 'as he put his Christian name "Prince" on hiscards without the addition of Mr. , was believed to be a native Africanprince, and soon became a lion of the first magnitude in fashionablecircles. ' She died in 1840.
...[350] 'A lady once ventured to ask Dr. Johnson how he liked Yorick's[Sterne's] _Sermons_. "I know nothing about them, madam, " was his reply. But some time afterwards, forgetting himself, he severely censured them. The lady retorted:--"I understood you to say, Sir, that you had neverread them. " "No, Madam, I did read them, but it was in a stage-coach; Ishould not have even deigned to look at them had I been at large. "Cradock's _Memoirs_, p. 208.
[351] See _ante_, iii. 382, note 1.
[352] Next day I endeavoured to give what had happened the mostingenious turn I could, by the following verses:-- To THE HONOURABLE Miss MONCKTON.
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