[1139] 'In my heart of heart.' Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2.
[1140] Another parcel of Lord Hailes's Annals of Scotland. BOSWELL.
[1141] Where Sir Joshua Reynolds lived. BOSWELL.
[1142] Johnson's birthday. In Pr. and Med. p. 143, is a prayer which was, he writes, 'composed at Calais in a sleepless night, and used before the morn at Nôtre Dame.'
[1143] See ante, i. 243, note 3.
[1144] 'While Johnson was in France, he was generally very resolute in speaking Latin.' Post, under Nov. 12, 1775.
[1145] Miss Thrale. BOSWELL.
[1146] In his Journal he records 'their meals are gross' (post, Oct. 10). We may doubt therefore Mrs. Piozzi's statement that he said of the French: 'They have few sentiments, but they express them neatly; they have little in meat too, but they dress it well.' Piozzi's Anec. p. 102.
[1147] See ante, i. 362, note 1.
[1148] Boswell wrote to Temple:—'You know, my dearest friend, of what importance this is to me; of what importance it is to the family of Auchinleck, which you may be well convinced is my supreme object in this world.' Letters of Boswell, p. 217. Alexander Boswell was killed in a duel in 1822.