[12] In one of his Hypochondriacks (London Mag. 1782, p. 233) Boswell writes:—­’I have heard it remarked by one, of whom more remarks deserve to be remembered than of any person I ever knew, that a man is often as narrow as he is prodigal for want of counting.’

[13] ’Sept. 1778.  We began talking of Irene, and Mrs. Thrale made Dr. Johnson read some passages which I had been remarking as uncommonly applicable to the present time.  He read several speeches, and told us he had not ever read so much of it before since it was first printed.’  Mme. D’Arblay’s Diary, i. 96.  ‘I was told,’ wrote Sir Walter Scott, ’that a gentleman called Pot, or some such name, was introduced to him as a particular admirer of his.  The Doctor growled and took no further notice.  “He admires in especial your Irene as the finest tragedy modern times;” to which the Doctor replied, “If Pot says so, Pot lies!” and relapsed into his reverie.’ Croker Corres. ii. 32.

[14] Scrupulosity was a word that Boswell had caught up from Johnson.  Sir W. Jones (Life, i. 177) wrote in 1776:—­’You will be able to examine with the minutest scrupulosity, as Johnson would call it.’  Johnson describes Addison’s prose as ‘pure without scrupulosity.’ Works, vii. 472.  ‘Swift,’ he says, ’washed himself with oriental scrupulosity.’ Ib. viii. 222.  Boswell (Hebrides, Aug. 15) writes of ‘scrupulosity of conscience.’

[15]

’When thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow’d thy purposes With words that made them known.’ The Tempest, act i. sc. 2.

[16] Secretary to the British Herring Fishery, remarkable for an extraordinary number of occasional verses, not of eminent merit.  BOSWELL.  See ante, i. 115, note i.  Lockman was known in France as the translator of Voltaire’s La Henriade.  See Marmontel’s Preface.  Voltaire’s Works, ed. 1819, viii. 18.

[17] Luke vii. 50.  BOSWELL.

[18] Miss Burney, describing him in 1783, says:—­’He looks unformed in his manners and awkward in his gestures.  He joined not one word in the general talk.’  Mme. D’Arblay’s Diary, ii. 237.  See ante, ii. 41, note 1.

[19] By Garrick.

[20] See ante, i. 201.

[21] See post, under Sept. 30, 1783.

[22] The actor.  Churchill introduces him in The Rosciad (Poems, i. 16):—­’Next Holland came.  With truly tragic stalk, He creeps, he flies.  A Hero should not walk.’

[23] In a letter written by Johnson to a friend in 1742-43, he says:  ’I never see Garrick.’  MALONE.

[24] See ante, ii. 227.

[25] The Wonder!  A Woman keeps a Secret, by Mrs. Centlivre.  Acted at Drury Lane in 1714.  Revived by Garrick in 1757.  Reed’s Biog.  Dram. iii. 420.