' _Ib_. p. 107. He was, he adds, 'a true Whig,' and would
have been made Archbishop of York had his party staid in power a little
longer in 1807.'
[384] _Rasselas_, chap. xi.
[385] See Boswell's _Hebrides_, Sept. 30.
[386] 'They heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden.'
_Genesis_, iii. 8.
[387]
... 'Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam,
Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.'
'And sure the man who has it in his power
To practise virtue, and protracts the hour,
Waits like the rustic till the river dried;
Still glides the river, and will ever glide.'
FRANCIS. Horace, _Epist_. i. 2. 41.
[388] See _ante_, p. 59.
[389] See _ante_, iii. 251.
[390] See _ante_, iii. 136.
[391] This assertion is disproved by a comparison of dates. The first
four satires of Young were published in 1725; The South Sea scheme
(which appears to be meant,) was in 1720. MALONE. In Croft's _Life of
Young_, which Johnson adopted, it is stated:--'By the _Universal
Passion_ he acquired no vulgar fortune, more than L3000.
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