[406] Private Letters of Gibbon 1. 31; 25 March 1763.
[407] See above, p. 123. As early as 1769, Mrs. Carter had long regretted that he had left ‘the tranquil pleasures of select society for the turbulent schemes of ambition.’ Letters to Mrs. Montagu 2. 23.
[408] Miss Burney was well aware of the difference here noted. In talking with Wyndham of Johnson’s life at Streatham, she gave ‘a little history of his way of life there,—his good humour, his sport, his kindness, his sociability, and all the many excellent qualities that, in the world at large, were by so many means obscured.’ Diary 3. 477.
[409] ‘Cette littérature devait briller des le dix-septième siècle, puisque dès lors se forme et se propage en France l’esprit de société.... Avant cet âge, en France du moins, les salons n’existent pas.’ P. de Julleville’s Histoire de la Littérature Française 5. 600.
[410] Letters, ed. Bradshaw, 1. 55.
[411] Memoirs of Sir James Mackintosh 2. 172.
[412] Diary of Madame D’Arblay 2. 266.
[413] Roberts’s Memoirs of More 2. 26; cf. Walpole’s Letters 14. 65 et passim.
[414] Letters 7. 9-10.
[415] Ib. 5. 87.