Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.' Macaulay's _Essays_, i. 374.
[99] See _post_, Sept. 17, 1777, and Malone's note of March 15, 1781,
and Boswell's _Hebrides_, Sept. 22, 1773. Hannah More met Boswell when
he was carrying through the press his _Journal of a Tour to the
Hebrides_. 'Boswell tells me,' she writes, 'he is printing anecdotes of
Johnson, not his _Life_, but, as he has the vanity to call it, his
_pyramid_. I besought his tenderness for our virtuous and most revered
departed friend, and begged he would mitigate some of his asperities. He
said roughly: "He would not cut off his claws, nor make a tiger a cat,
to please anybody." It will, I doubt not, be a very amusing book, but, I
hope, not an indiscreet one; he has great enthusiasm and some fire.' H.
More's _Memoirs_, i. 403.
[100] Rambler, No. 60. BOSWELL.
[101] In the _Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides_.
[102] 'Mason's _Life of Gray_ is excellent, because it is interspersed
with letters which show us the _man_. His _Life of Whitehead_ is not a
life at all, for there is neither a letter nor a saying from first to
last.' _Letters of Boswell_, p. 265.
[103] The Earl and Countess of Jersey, WRIGHT.
[104] Plutarch's _Life of Alexander_, Langhorne's Translation. BOSWELL.
[105] In the original, _revolving something_.
[106] In the original, _and so little regard the manners_.
[107] In the original, _and are rarely transmitted_.
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