' _Piozzi Letters_, ii. 296. See _post_,
April 18, 1783.
[530] See _ante_, p. 116; also iii. 310, where he bore the same topic
impatiently when with Dr. Scott.
[531] See _ante_, ii. 357.
[532]
'See nations, slowly wise and meanly just,
To buried merit raise the tardy bust.'
Johnson's _Vanity of Human Wishes_.
[533] He was perhaps, thinking of Markland. _Ante_, p. 161, note 3.
[534] 'Dr. Johnson,' writes Mrs. Piozzi, 'was no complainer of
ill-usage. I never heard him even lament the disregard shown to
_Irene_.' _Piozzi Letters_, ii. 386. See _ante_, i. 200.
[535] Letter to the People of Scotland against the attempt to diminish
the number of the Lords of Session, 1785. BOSWELL. 'By Mr. Burke's
removal from office the King's administration was deprived of the
assistance of that affluent mind, which is so universally rich that, as
long as British literature and British politicks shall endure, it will
be said of Edmund Burke, _Regum equabat [sic] opes animis.'_ p.71.
[536] _Georgics_, iv. 132.
[537] See _ante_, iii. 56, note 2.
[538] Very likely Boswell.
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