This remark, whether it is Brown's or not, may have been suggested by Milton's lines in Paradise Lost, ii. 496-9, or might have suggested them:—
'O shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures rational.'
Johnson on the advantages of having a profession or business.
(Vol. iii, p. 309, n. 1.)
'Dr. Johnson was of opinion that the happiest as well as the most virtuous persons were to be found amongst those who united with a business or profession a love of literature.' —Seward's Biographiana, p. 599.
Johnson's trips to the country.
(Vol. iii, p. 453.)
I have omitted to mention Johnson's visit to 'Squire Dilly's mansion at Southill in June, 1781 (ante, iv. 118-132).
Citations of living authors in Johnson's Dictionary.
(Vol. iv, p. 4, n. 3.)