NOTES
DR. JOHNSON AND DR. WARTON.
Amongst the poems of the Rev. Thos. Warton, vicar of Basingstoke, who is best remembered as the father of two celebrated sons, is one entitled The Universal Love of Pleasure, commencing—
"All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe'er disguised by art, pursue."
&c. &c.
Warton died in 1745, and his Poems were published in 1748.
Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes appeared in 1749; but Boswell believes that it was composed in the preceding year. That Poem, as we well remember, commences thus tamely:—
"Let observation with extensive view,