293).
The date perhaps should be July 11. The letter that follows next is
dated July 12.
[1085] 'Even in our flight from vice some virtue lies.' FRANCIS. Horace,
i. _Epistles_, I. 41.
[1086] See vol. ii. p. 258. BOSWELL.
[1087] Mrs. Johnson died in 1752. See _ante_, i. 241, note 2.
[1088] See Appendix.
[1089] Printed in his _Works_ [i. 150]. BOSWELL. See _ante_, i. 241,
note 2.
[1090] He wrote to Mr. Ryland on the same day:--'Be pleased to let the
whole be done with privacy that I may elude the vigilance of the
papers.' _Notes and Queries_, 5th S. vii. 381.
[1091] Boileau, _Art Poetique_, chant iv.
[1092] This is probably an errour either of the transcript or the press.
_Removes_ seems to be the word intended. MALONE.
[1093] See _ante_, i. 332, and _post_ p. 360.
[1094] See _ante_, p. 267.
[1095] I have heard Dr. Johnson protest that he never had quite as much
as he wished of wall-fruit, except once in his life.' Piozzi's
_Anec_. p. 103.
[1096] At the Essex Head, Essex-street. BOSWELL.
[1097] Juvenal, _Satires_, x. 8:--
'Fate wings with every wish the afflictive dart.
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