[33] Vol. I. Appendix, p. 422.
[34] Vol. I. Appendix, p. 422.
[35] Vol. I. Appendix, pp. 425, 441.
[36] Vol. I. Appendix, p. 442.
[37] Vol. I. Appendix, p. 432.
[38] Vol. I. Appendix, p. 434.
[39] Vol. I. Appendix, p. 443.
[40] Vol. I. Appendix, p. 428.
[41] Vol. I. Appendix, pp. 428, 433.
[42] "Lives of the Poets," Vol. III. p. 61. Mr. Roscoe says that no evidence for this statement appears. Johnson is himself the evidence. He went to London in 1737, when he was 28 years of age, to try his fortunes as an author, and became intimate with Savage, who was the ally of Pope, with Dodsley, who published the authentic edition of the poet's correspondence, and with numerous other persons from whom he was likely to have received reliable information upon a fact so recent. It is not to be supposed that Johnson imagined or invented a circumstance which there is nothing to discredit.