[999] Mrs. Piozzi confidently mentions this as having passed in Scotland, Anecdotes, p. 62. BOSWELL. She adds:—'I was shocked to think how he [Johnson] must have disgusted him [Robertson].' She, we may well believe, felt no more shock than Robertson felt disgust.
[1000] See Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV, ch. xiv.
[1001] See ante, p. 191.
[1002] See ante, p. 54.
[1003] It was on this day that Johnson dictated to Boswell his Latin translation of Dryden's lines on Milton. Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 22.
[1004] See ante, ii. 109.
[1005] '"Well, Sir," said he, "we had good talk." BOSWELL. "Yes Sir; you tossed and gored several persons."' Ante, ii. 66.
[1006] Very likely their host. See ante, iii. 48.
[1007] See ante, iii. 97.
[1008] Acts, X. 1 and 2.