[67] 'Hace sunt quae nostra liceat te voce moneri.' Aeneid, iii. 461.
[68] The passage omitted explained the transaction to which the preceding letter had alluded. BOSWELL.
[69] See ante, June 10, 1761.
[70] Mr. Croker says:—'It was by visiting Chambers, when a fellow of University College, that Johnson became acquainted with Lord Stowell [at that time William Scott]; and when Chambers went to India, Lord Stowell, as he expressed it to me, seemed to succeed to his place in Johnson's friendship.' Croker's Boswell, p. 90, note. John Scott (Earl of Eldon), Sir William Jones and Mr. Windham, were also members of University College. The hall is adorned with the portraits of these five men. An engraving of Johnson is in the Common Room.
[71] It is not easy to discover anything noble or even felicitous in this Dedication. Works, v. 444.
[72] See ante, i. 148.
[73] See ante, i. 177, note 2.
[74] See ante, i. 158.
[75] See ante, i. 178, note 2.
[76] This poem is scarcely Johnson's, though all the lines but the third in the following couplets may be his.