...Pepys more than two months after this conversation. 3 Johnson once said to Mrs. Thrale : — ' Why, Madam, you often provoke me to say severe things by...speak well of a thing which I think contemptible.' Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, \. 132. See ante, iii. 225. 4 'Mrs. Thrale,' wrote MissBurney in 1780, 'is a...

...Pepys more than two months after this conversation. 3 Johnson once said to Mrs. Thrale :— ' Why, Madam, you often provoke me to say severe things by...commendation. If you would not call for my praise, I woi not give you my censure ; but constantly moves my indignation be applied to, to speak well of a...

...sincerely he is my friend, and that he means to mend me ; but to others it is cruel. Dr. J. — Why, madam, you often provoke me to say severe things,...speak well of a thing which I think contemptible. f. B. — Well, this I know, whoever I may hear complain of Dr. Johnson's severity, I shall always...

...sincerely he is my friend, and that he means to mend me ; but to others it is cruel. Dr.J. — Why, madam, you often provoke me to say severe things,...my praise, I would not give you my censure ; but it conSlantly moves my indignation to be applied to, to speak well of a thing which I think contemptible....

...sincerely he is my friend, and that he means to mend me ; but to others it is cruel. Dr. J. — Why, madam, you often provoke me to say severe things,...not give you my censure ; but it constantly moves my VOL. IK indignation to be applied to, to speak well of a thing which I think contemptible. FB — Well,...

...cruel. Dr. J. — Why, madam, you often provoke me to say severe things, by unreasonable commendation.1 If you would not call for my praise, I would not give...speak well of a thing which I think contemptible. FB — Well, this I know, whoever I may hear complain of Dr. Johnson's severity, I shall always vouch...