Footnotes
All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe'er disguised by art, pursue.
Thomas Warton: Universal Love of Pleasure.
De Quincey (Works, vol. x. p. 72) quotes the criticism of some writer, who contends with some reason that this high-sounding couplet of Dr. Johnson amounts in effect to this: Let observation with extensive observation observe mankind extensively.
Nothing in poverty so ill is borne
As its exposing men to grinning scorn.
Oldham (1653-1683): Third Satire of Juvenal.
[366:2] Three years later Johnson wrote, "Mere unassisted merit advances slowly, if—what is not very common—it advances at all."
[366:3] Var. His ready help was always nigh.
[367:1] Var. Then with no fiery throbbing pain.
Qui nullum fere scribendi genus
Non tetigit,
Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.
See Chesterfield, page [353].
[367:3] A translation of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosophiæ," iii. 9, 27.
[368:1] See Bacon, page [168].
[368:2] The italics and the word "forget" would seem to imply that the saying was not his own.
[368:3] Sir William Jones gives a similar saying in India: "Words are the daughters of earth, and deeds are the sons of heaven."
See Herbert, page [206]. Sir Thomas Bodley: Letter to his Librarian, 1604.
[369:1] From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835.
Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell's intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell's!—Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter.
[370:1] I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actor spoke, nor the religion which they professed,—whether Arab in the desert, or Frenchman in the Academy. I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.—Emerson: The Preacher. Lectures and Biographical Sketches, p. 215.
[371:1] Every investigation which is guided by principles of nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.—Athenæus: Book vii. chap. ii.
[371:2] Mr. Kremlin was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.—Disraeli: Sybil, book iv. chap. 5.
[372:1] See Herbert, page [205].
Do not be troubled by Saint Bernard's saying that hell is full of good intentions and wills.—Francis de Sales: Spiritual Letters. Letter xii. (Translated by the author of "A Dominican Artist.") 1605.
[372:2] Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est (To know where you can find anything, that in short is the largest part of learning).—Anonymous.
Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome at an inn.
Shenstone: Written on a Window of an Inn.
[373:1] Chapter xlii. is still shorter: "There are no owls of any kind in the whole island."
[374:1] I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.—Edward Moore: The Gamester, act ii. sc. 2. 1753.
[374:2] Usually quoted as "When a nobleman writes a book, he ought to be encouraged."
[374:3] I have not loved the world, nor the world me.—Byron: Childe Harold, canto iii. stanza 113.
[374:4] See Shakespeare, page [88].
[375:1] A parody on "Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free," from Brooke's "Gustavus Vasa," first edition.
[375:2] Carried about with every wind of doctrine.—Ephesians iv. 14.
[375:3] Elsewhere found, "I put my hat."
[375:4] A parody on Percy's "Hermit of Warkworth."
[376:1] This is the composition of Johnson, founded on some note or statement of the actual speech. Johnson said, "That speech I wrote in a garret, in Exeter Street." Boswell: Life of Johnson, 1741.
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LORD LYTTLETON. 1709-1773.
For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre
None but the noblest passions to inspire,
Not one immoral, one corrupted thought,
One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.
Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus.
Women, like princes, find few real friends.
Advice to a Lady.
What is your sex's earliest, latest care,
Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.
Advice to a Lady.
The lover in the husband may be lost.
Advice to a Lady.
How much the wife is dearer than the bride.
An Irregular Ode.
None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair,
But love can hope where reason would despair.
Epigram.
Where none admire, 't is useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.
Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country.
Alas! by some degree of woe
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can ne'er a transport know
That never feels a pain.
Song.
EDWARD MOORE. 1712-1757.
Can't I another's face commend,
And to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead lowers,
As if her merit lessen'd yours?
The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat. Fable ix.
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The maid who modestly conceals
Her beauties, while she hides, reveals;
Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws
Whate'er the Grecian Venus was.
The Spider and the Bee. Fable x.
But from the hoop's bewitching round,
Her very shoe has power to wound.
The Spider and the Bee. Fable x.
Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth,
And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
The Happy Marriage.
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.[378:1]
The Gamester. Act ii. Sc. 2.
'T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
The Gamester. Act iii. Sc. 4.
Labour for his pains.[378:2]
The Boy and the Rainbow.