[15] Written by Mr. Tytler, of Edinburgh.

[16] Printed in the Gentleman’s Magazine, October, 1760.

[17] First printed in the year 1739.

[18] See his Remains, 1614, p. 337, “Riming verses, which are called versus leonini, I know not wherefore, (for a lyon’s taile doth not answer to the middle parts as these verses doe,) began in the time of Carolus Magnus, and were only in request then, and in many ages following, which delighted in nothing more than in this minstrelsie of meeters.”

[19] Dr. Edward Young.

[20] Ambrose Philips, author of the Distrest Mother, &c.

[21] Edward Ward.  See Dunciad, and Biographia Dramatica.

[22] Joseph Mitchell.  See Biographia Dramatica.

[23] Published first in the Literary Magazine, No. iv. from July 15, to Aug. 15, 1756.  This periodical work was published by Richardson, in Paternoster row, but was discontinued about two years after.  Dr. Johnson wrote many articles, which have been enumerated by Mr. Boswell, and there are others which I should be inclined to attribute to him, from internal evidence.

[24] In the magazine, this article is promised “to be continued;” but the author was, by whatever means, diverted from it, and no continuation appears.

[25] This was the introductory article to the Literary Magazine, No. i.

[26] From the Literary Magazine, for July, 1756.

[27] See Literary Magazine, No. ii. p. 63.

[28] This short paper was added to some editions of the Idler, when collected into volumes, but not by Dr. Johnson, as Mr. Boswell asserts, nor to the early editions of that work.

[29] In the first edition, this passage stood thus:  “Let him not, however, be depreciated in his grave.  He had powers not universally possessed; could he have enforced payment of the Manilla ransome, he could have counted it.”  There were some other alterations suggested, it would appear, by lord North.

[30] The Patriot is of the same cast with Johnson’s other political writings.  It endeavours to justify the outrages of the house of commons, in the case of the Middlesex election, and to vindicate the harsh measures then in agitation against America:  it can only, therefore, be admired as a clever, sophistical composition.—­Eb.

[31] For arguments on the opposite side of this question, see the Abbe Raynal’s Revolution of America, and Edin.  Rev. xl. p. 451.—­Ed.

[32] Of this reasoning I owe part to a conversation with sir John Hawkins.

[33] Written for the Gentleman’s Magazine, for 1738.

[34] “Erat Hermanni genitor Latine, Graece, Hebraice sciens:  peritus valde historiarum et gentium.  Vir apertus, candidus, simplex; paterfamilias optimus amore, cura, diligentia, frugalitate, prudentia.  Qui non magna in re, sed plenus virtutis, novem liberis educandis exemplum praebuit singulare, quid exacta parsimonia polleat, et frugalitas.” Orig.  Edit.