[95] See, however, [page 201].—Ed.
[96] According to Macaulay ("Essays," vol. i., p. 378), "wit was utterly wanting to Boswell."—Ed.
[97] "For my part I like very well to hear honest Goldsmith talk away carelessly." Boswell, as reported by himself. "Life of Johnson." Date of April 11, 1772.—Ed.
[98] "I give admirable dinners, and good claret; and the moment I go abroad again, I set up my chariot."—Boswell, in a letter to Temple, May 14, 1768.—Ed.
[99] Sampiero had been the leader of a revolt which broke out in 1564. He was assassinated three years later.—Ed.
[100] Compare Boswell's introduction to Johnson.—Ed.
[101] See [page 222].—Ed.
[102] "Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, 'Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.'"—Book of Esther, c. vi., v. 11.—Ed.
[103] "Finding him (Johnson) in a placid humour, and wishing to avail myself of the opportunity which I fortunately had of consulting a sage, to hear whose wisdom, I conceived, in the ardour of youthful imagination, that men filled with a noble enthusiasm for intellectual improvement would gladly have resorted from distant lands, I opened my mind to him ingenuously, and gave him a little sketch of my life, to which he was pleased to listen with great attention."—Boswell's "Johnson." Date of June 13, 1763.—Ed.
[104] See [page 140].—Ed.