[855] Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2.
[856] 'Exegi monumentum ære perennius.' Horace, Odes, iii. 30. I.
[857] The second edition was not brought out till the year after Johnson's death. These mistakes remain uncorrected. Johnson's Works, ix. 44. 150.
[858] See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 23.
[859] In the Court of Session of Scotland an action is first tried by one of the Judges, who is called the Lord Ordinary; and if either party is dissatisfied, he may appeal to the whole Court, consisting of fifteen, the Lord President and fourteen other Judges, who have both in and out of Court the title of Lords, from the name of their estates; as, Lord Auchinleck, Lord Monboddo, &c. BOSWELL. See ante, ii. 201, note 1.
[860] Johnson had thus written of him (Works, ix. 115):—'I suppose my opinion of the poems of Ossian is already discovered. I believe they never existed in any other form than that which we have seen. The editor, or author, never could show the original; nor can it be shown by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.' See ante, ii. 126.
[861] Taxation no Tyranny. See post, under March 21, 1775.
[862] See ante, p. 265.
[863] In Tickell's Epistle from the Hon. Charles Fox to the Hon. John Townshend (1779) are the following lines (p. 11):—
'Soon as to Brooks's thence thy footsteps bend,
What gratulations thy approach attend!