means to prove the mistaken samuel and see what stuff is in him he must leave these of oxford want like an armed man compelling him retreat into his father s mean home and there abandon himself for a season to disappointment shame and nervous melancholy nigh run mad he is probably the man in wide england in all ways ho too must become perfect through suffering � high thoughts have visited him his college exercises have b en s writings praised beyond the walls of college pope himself has seen that translation and approved of it samuel had to himself i too am one and somewhat false thoughts that leave only misery behind the fever fire of ambition is too painfully extinguished but not cured in the frost bath of poverty johnson has knocked at the gate as one having a right but there was no opening the world lies all encircled as with brass nowhere can he find or force the smallest entrance an at market and a between him and sir the patron of the school him bread of tion and water of affliction but so bitter that human nature cannot swallow them young will grind no more in the mill of hold of sir and the domestic so far at least as to say grace at table and also to be treated with what he represented as intolerable and so after months of such complicated misery feeling doubt less that there are worse things in the world than quick death by famine a situation which all his life he recollected with the strongest aversion and even horror men like johnson are properly called the forlorn hope of ae judge whether his hope was forlorn or not by this i to a dull who called himself sir � as you appear sensible than your readers of the of your poetical article you will not be displeased if in order to the improvement of it i communicate to you the of a person who will undertake on reasonable terms sometimes to fill a column � his opinion is that the public would c c if such a correspondence will be agreeable to you be pleased to inform me in two posts what the conditions are on which you shall expect it your late offer for a prize poem gives me no s of johnson to distrust your generosity if you engage in any literary projects besides this paper i have other designs to impart reader the generous person to whom this goes addressed is mr cave at st john s gate london the of it is samuel johnson in nevertheless life in the man its right to be even to be enjoyed better a small bush say the scotch than no shelter johnson to be contented with humble human things and is there not already an actually realized human existence all stirring and living on very hand of him go thou and do likewise in itself with his own purchased goose he can earn five pounds nay finally the good a friend who will be wife to him johnson s marriage with the good widow porter has been treated with ridicule by many mortals who apparently had no understanding thereof that the faced lonely woe stricken like some irish with club whose speech no man knew whose look all men both laughed at and shuddered at should find any brave female heart to acknowledge at first sight and hearing of him this is the most sensible man i ever met with and then with generous courage to take him to itself and say be thou mine be thou warmed here and to life � in all this in the kind widow s love and pity for him in johnson s love and gratitude there is actually no matter for ridicule their wedded life as is the lot was made up of and dry weather but innocence and worth dwelt in it and when death had ended it a certain johnson s affection for his was always venerable and noble however be this as it might johnson is now minded to wed and will s miscellaneous writings live by the trade of for by this also may life be kept in let the world therefore take notice at near in young gentlemen are ed and taught the latin and greek languages by johnson had this enterprise how might the issue have been johnson had lived a life of unnoticed or into some dr of no avail to us would have into official or risen by some other elevation old had never been afflicted with that a or obliged to hospitality by a do god sir he kings ken that there was a in their neck but the enterprise did not prosper destiny had other work appointed for samuel johnson and young gentlemen got board where they could elsewhere find it this man was to become a teacher of grown gentlemen in the most surprising way a man of letters and ruler of the british nation for some time � not of their bodies merely but of their minds not over them but in them the career of literature could not in johnson s day any more than now be said to lie along the shores of a whatever else might be gathered there gold dust was the chief produce the world from the times of st paul and far earlier has always had its teachers and always treated them in a peculiar way a shrewd town clerk not of once in a when the question came how the should be maintained delivered this brief counsel d � n them keep them poor considerable wisdom may lie in this at all events we see the world has acted on it long and indeed improved on it � putting many a of its great to a death which even cost it something the world it is true had for some s 