' DR. BUSCH, quoted in Lowe's _Prince
Bismarck_, i. 130.
[89] See _ante_, i. 470, for his disapproval of 'studied behaviour.'
[90] Johnson had perhaps Dr. Warton in mind. _Ante_, ii. 41, note 1.
[91] See _ante_, i. 471, and iii. 165.
[92] 'Oblivion is a kind of annihilation.' Sir Thomas Browne's
_Christian Morals_, sect. xxi.
[93] 'Nec te quaesiveris extra.' Persius, _Sat_. i. 7. We may compare
Milton's line,
'In himself was all his state.'
_Paradise Lost_, v. 353.
[94] See _ante,_ iii. 269.
[95] 'A work of this kind must, in a minute examination, discover many
imperfections; but West's version, so far as I have considered it,
appears to be the product of great labour and great abilities.'
Johnson's _Works,_ viii. 398.
[96] See Boswell's _Hebrides,_ Aug. 25, 1773.
[97] See _ante,_ i. 82, and ii. 228.
[98] See _ante,_ i. 242.
[99] See Boswell's _Hebrides_, under Nov. 11.
[100] A literary lady has favoured me with a characteristick anecdote of
Richardson. One day at his country-house at Northend, where a large
company was assembled at dinner, a gentleman who was just returned from
Paris, willing to please Mr.
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