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ii, scene 3,) at the great fire, fell doith the ruins of the houses, little injured, and was conveyed to Whitechapel Mount, where it was identified and recovered about thirty years ago
ORIGIN OF ”THE EDINBURGH REVIEW”
The _Edinburgh Revieas first published in 1802 The plan was suggested by Sydney S of _literati_, in the fourth or fifth flat or story, in Buccleugh-place, Edinburgh, then the elevated lodging of Jeffrey The motto humorously proposed for the new review by its projector was, ”_Tenui musam meditamur avena,_”--_ie_, ”We cultivate literature upon a little oat too nearly the truth to be publicly acknowledged, the rave dictum of ”_Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur_” was adopted from _Publius Syrus_, of whom, Sydney Sle line!” Lord Byron, in his fifth edition of _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_, refers to the reviewers as an ”oat-fed phalanx”
CLEVER STATESMEN
However great talents enerally best fit a e of social duties Swift rereat parts are often unfortunate in the o out of the coination This I once said to broke, and desired he would observe, that the clerk in his office used a sort of ivory knife, with a blunt edge, to divide a sheet of paper, which never failed to cut it even, only by requiring a steady hand; whereas, if he should o often out of the crease, and disfigure the paper”
THE FIRST MAGAZINE
The _Gentleazine_ unaccountably passes for the earliest periodical of that description; while, in fact, it was preceded nearly forty years by the _Gentle our azines, and from which Sylvanus Urban borrowed part of his title, and part of his e of the first nuazine_ itself, it is stated to contain ”more than any book of the _kind_ and price”
MRS TRIMMER
This ingenious wohter of Joshua and Sarah Kirby, and was born at Ipswich, January 6, 1741 Kirby taught George the Third, when Prince of Wales, perspective and architecture He was also President of the Society of Artists of Great Britain, out of which grew the Royal Acadeh to be buried beside his old friend Kirby, and their tombs adjoin each other in the churchyard at Kew
Mrs Tri Milton's _Paradise Lost_; and this circumstance so pleased Dr Johnson, that he invited her to see him, and presented her with a copy of his _Raory, Sharp, Hogarth, and Gainsborough, with all of whom her father was on terious education against the latitudinarian views of Joseph Lancaster It was at her persuasion that Dr Bell entered the field, and paved the way for the establishment of the National Society
Mrs Trimmer died, in her seventieth year, in 1810 She was seated at her table reading a letter, when her head sunk upon her boso, that she see slu to interrupt
BOSWELL'S BEAR-LEADING
It was on a visit to the parliament house that Mr Henry Erskine, (brother of Lord Buchan and Lord Erskine,) after being presented to Dr
Johnson by Mr Boswell, and havinginto Boswell's hand, whispering that it was for the sight of his _bear_--_Sir Walter Scott_
LORD ELIBANK AND DR JOHNSON
Lord Elibank made a happy retort on Dr Johnson's definition of oats, as the food of horses in England, and men in Scotland ”Yes,” said he, ”and where else will you see _such horses, and such men_?”--_Sir Walter Scott_
RELICS OF DR JOHNSON AT LICHFIELD
The house in which Dr Johnson was born, at Lichfield--where his father, it is well known, kept a small bookseller's shop, and where he was partly educated--stood on the west side of the market-place In the centre of the market-place is a colossal statue of Johnson, seated upon a square pedestal: it is by Lucas, and was executed at the expense of the Rev Chancellor Law, in 1838 By the side of a footpath leading froe , said to have been planted by Johnson It was blon, in 1829; but one of its shoots was preserved and planted upon the sae tree, known in the town as ”Johnson's Willow”