[783] _Memoirs of Dr. Burney_, ii. 191-4.
[784] Madame d’Arblay’s _Diary_, ed. 1843, v. 166.
[785] Boswell’s _Correspondence with Erskine_, ed. 1879, p. 36.
[786] Boswell’s _Johnson_, i. 11; iii. 362; v. 52.
[787] _Scots Magazine_, 1797, p. 292.
[788] Tytler’s _Life of Lord Kames_, ii. 228.
[789] _Scotland and Scotsmen_, i. 176.
[790] Crazy.
[791] _Loup_ is a cognate word with _leap_, and signifies _to run_. A
_landlouper_ is a _runagate; one constantly shifting from one place to
another_.
[792] Johnson’s _Works_, ix. 158.
[793] _Quarterly Review_, No. 71, p. 225.
[794] _Ib._
[795] _Garrick Correspondence_, i. 436.
[796] _Letters of Boswell to Temple_, p. 156.
[797] _Scotland and Scotsmen, &c._, i. 172. _Tout is the blast of a
horn._
[798] Davies’s _Life of Garrick_, ii. 115.
[799] Cromwell’s _Letters and Speeches_, ed. 1857, ii. 209.
[800] Croker’s _Boswell_, 8vo. ed. p. 826.
[801] _Letters of Boswell to Temple_, p. 207.
[802] _Quarterly Review_, No. 71, p. 209.
[803] Croker’s _Correspondence_, ii. 32.
[804] Lockhart’s _Life of Scott_, v. 336.
[805] C. Rogers’s _Modern Scottish Minstrel_, 1870, p. 158.
[806] Lord Cockburn’s _Memorials_, pp. 380, 392, and Lockhart’s
_Scott_, vii. 33.
[807] Rogers’s _Boswelliana_, p. 195, and _Notes and Queries_, 3rd
Series, vii. 197.
[808] _Letters of Boswell to Temple_, p. 315.
[809] Croker’s _Boswell_, p. 620.
[810] Lockhart’s _Life of Scott_, vii. 33.
[811] Macaulay’s _Miscellaneous Writings_, ed. 1871, p. 369.
[812] Johnson imagines Burke falling into chance conversations on two
occasions; once on shunning a shower under a shed, and another time
on stepping aside to take shelter from a drove of oxen.—_Life of
Johnson_, iv. 275; v. 34.
[813] “JOHNSON. I remember once being with Goldsmith in Westminster
Abbey. While we surveyed the Poets’ Corner I said to him,
‘Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis.’
When we got to Temple Bar he stopped me, pointed to the heads upon it,
and slily whispered me,
‘Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur _istis_.’”
_Ib._ ii. 238.
[814] See Boswell’s will in Rogers’s _Boswelliana_, p. 185.
[815] _Carlyle’s Reminiscences_, ed. 1881, i. 178.
[816] _Gentleman’s Magazine_, 1771, p. 545.
[817] _Humphry Clinker_, iii. 85.
[818] Boswell’s _Johnson_, iii. 212, 216.
[819] _Scotland and Scotsmen_, &c., i. 398.
[820] _Traditions of Edinburgh_, ed. 1825, ii. 161.
[821] _Scotland and Scotsmen_, &c., i. 397, 407.
[822] Boswell’s _Johnson_, ii. 383, iii. 404.
[823] Gibbon’s _Miscellaneous Works_, ed. 1814, i. 232.
[824] Hume’s _Letters to Strahan_, p. 74.
[825] _Scotland and Scotsmen_, &c., i. 402.
[826] Burke’s _Correspondence_, iii. 301.
[827] A Scotticism for _out of the window_. See _ante_, p. 46.
[828] _Scotland and Scotsmen_, &c., i. 394.
[829] _Scotland and Scotsmen_, &c., i. 411.
[830] Burnet’s _History of his own Time_, ed. 1818, ii. 443.
[831] _Scotland and Scotsmen_, &c., i. 409.
[832] Boswell’s _Johnson_, ii. 364.
[833] Smollett’s _History of England_, iii. 169.
[834] Walpole’s _Letters_, i. 407.
[835] _Scotland and Scotsmen_, &c., i. 407.
[836] _Ib._, p. 413.
[837] Chambers’s _Traditions of Edinburgh_, ed. 1869, p. 145.
[838] Darnhall is at present Lord Elibank’s seat; but in Paterson’s
_British Itinerary_ (ed. 1800, i. 227; ii. 557) it is described as the
seat of the Hon. George Murray, while Ballencrieff is mentioned as Lord
Elibank’s. Murray is the family name of the Elibanks.
[839] _Humphry Clinker_, ii. 219.
[840] Walpole’s _Letters_, ii. 32.
[841] _Quarterly Review_, No. 71, p. 199.
[842] Walpole’s _Letters_, ii. 40.
[843] Home’s _Works_, i. 54.
[844] Dr. A. Carlyle’s _Autobiography_, p. 298, and D. Stewart’s _Life
of Robertson_, ed. 1802, p. 5.
[845] _History of England_, ed. 1773, v. 504.
[846] Robertson’s _Works_, ed. 1802, v. 46.
[847] Dr. A. Carlyle’s _Autobiography_, p. 267.
[848] Horace Walpole’s _Letters_, ix. 103.
[849] When I had the honour of meeting Mr. Gladstone in his visit to
Oxford early this year, he quoted this passage in his strong deep
voice, and praised it highly.
[850] At Ballencrieff there is no river, but perhaps Johnson was
thinking of the Firth of Forth.
[851] This interesting tradition comes to me from my friend General
Cadell, C.B., of Cockenzie House, to whom I am indebted for the
accompanying sketch of the trees.
[852]
“From thence our travels to Brundusium bend,
Where our long journey and my paper end.”
FRANCIS’S _Horace_, i. Sat. v. 103.
[853] _Letters of Boswell to Temple_, p. 168.
[854] Walpole’s _Letters_, v. 441.
[855] _Letters of Hume to Strahan_, pp. 174, 265.
[856] Boswell’s _Johnson_, ii. 210.
[857] Dr. A. Carlyle’s _Autobiography_, p. 437.
[858] _Tour in Scotland_, ed. 1776, ii. 259, 260.
[859] Twiss’s _Life of Lord Eldon_, ed. 1846, i. 57, and the
_Gentleman’s Magazine_, 1771, p. 543.
[860] Boswell’s _Johnson_, ii. 268.
[861] The original letter of which a facsimile is given is in my
possession. See Appendix B.
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