[599] Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 10.
[600] See post, under Oct. 12, 1779.
[601] I have heard Dr. Warton mention, that he was at Mr. Robert Dodsley's with the late Mr. Moore, and several of his friends, considering what should be the name of the periodical paper which Moore had undertaken. Garrick proposed The Sallad, which, by a curious coincidence, was afterwards applied to himself by Goldsmith:
'Our Garrick's a sallad, for in him we see
Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!'
[Retaliation, line II.]
At last, the company having separated, without any thing of which they approved having been offered, Dodsley himself thought of The World. BOSWELL.
[602] In the original MS. 'in this my undertaking,' and below, 'the salvation both of myself and others.'
[603] Prayers and Meditations, p. 9. BOSWELL.
[604] In the original folio edition of the Rambler the concluding paper is dated Saturday, March 17. But Saturday was in fact March 14. This circumstance is worth notice, for Mrs. Johnson died on the 17th. MALONE.
[605] Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 3d edit. p. 28. [Aug. 16, 1773]. BOSWELL.