The lord's name is not given. See post, spring of 1768, and 1780 in
Mr. Langton's Collection for further mention of Guthrie.
[338] Perhaps there were Scotticisms for Johnson to correct; for Churchill in The Author, writing of Guthrie, asks:—
'With rude unnatural jargon to support Half Scotch, half English, a declining Court
* * * * *
Is there not Guthrie?'
Churchill's Poems, ii. 39.
[339] See Appendix A.
[340] Pope, Imitations of Horace, ii. l. 71.
[341] 'To give the world assurance of a man.' Hamlet, Act iii. sc. 4.
[342] In his Life of Pope Johnson says: 'This mode of imitation … was first practised in the reign of Charles II. by Oldham and Rochester; at least I remember no instances more ancient. It is a kind of middle composition between translation and original design, which pleases when the thoughts are unexpectedly applicable and the parallels lucky. It seems to have been Pope's favourite amusement, for he has carried it farther than any former poet.' Johnson's Works, viii. 295.