' See _ante_, i.
332, and iv. 353.
[1117] His _Account of the Musical Performances in Commemoration of
Handel_. See _ante_, p. 283.
[1118] The celebrated Miss Fanny Burney. BOSWELL.
[1119] Dr. Burney's letter must have been franked; otherwise there would
have been no frugality, for each enclosure was charged as a
separate letter.
[1120] He does not know, that is to say, what people of his acquaintance
were in town, privileged to receive letters post free; such as members
of either House of Parliament.
[1121] _Consolation_ is clearly a blunder, Malone's conjecture
_mortification_ seems absurd.
[1122] See _ante_, iii. 48, and iv. 177.
[1123] Windham visited him at Ashbourne in the end of August, after the
former of these letters was written. See _ante_, p. 356.
[1124] This may refer, as Mr. Croker says, to Hamilton's generous offer,
mentioned _ante_, p. 244. Yet Johnson, with his accurate mind, was not
likely to assign to the spring an event of the previous November.
[1125] Johnson refers to Pope's lines on Walpole:--
'Seen him I have but in his _happier hour_
Of social pleasure, ill-exchanged for power.
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