M 223

Walter Hussey Burgh.

Senhouse. This was a name connected with the year 1779 in JB's
Journal. The family lived in the north, near Carlisle.

"Egertons". For 18th cent. booksellers by the name of Egerton, I
found: Park Egerton. Dict. of Printers and Booksellers, 1700-1775,
says he was in business in 1730. His shop was near Whitehall. The
poet Thomson lived there when he came to London and wrote "Winter"
there. (I do not find when he died).

C 2057

More likely the one ment. by JB was Egerton, T[homas] and J[ohn],
London. Yale has an auction catalogue of theirs: A Catalogue of the
Library of ... which will be sold at auction By T. and J. Egerton,
Booksellers, at their room, in Scotland Yard, (opposite the Ad-
miralty) On Monday ... 1786 ... Catalogues (Price Sixpence) to be
had of ... and of Mess. Egerton, Whitehall.

I also found the following obit. in *Gent. Mag.*, 1795, p.87 (in part):
17 Jan 1795, At his house opposite the Admiralty, of a rheumatic
fever after a week's illness, Mr. John Egerton, a book-

(cont.)

M 223

card 2

Walter Hussey Burgh.

seller of great eminence. To the Literati he was an useful man; he
knew books well; and his memory, uncommonly retentive, was seldom at
a loss through the variety of dates, prices, and sizes. In the Sales-
room he was conspicuously clever, and put the excellencies of an
article very forcibly to the bidder ... He marr. a daughter of the
late Mr. Lockyer Davis of Holborn.

Probably John was of the firm Thomas and John Egerton. Egertons (note
plural) is mentioned two or three times in the daily record JB kept
of the sales of the *Life*, 1st and 2d eds. (see A 59-62).

with M 224

M 225.2

JB's Commonplace-Book. List of contents.

<table><tr><td>Carstare's State Papers</td><td>1-11</td></tr><tr><td>Mason's Memoirs of Gray</td><td>12-15</td></tr><tr><td>Collins. Poetical Works</td><td>16-17</td></tr><tr><td>Cheyne on Health</td><td>18-19</td></tr><tr><td>Langhorne's Effusions of Friendship and Fancy</td><td>20-21</td></tr><tr><td>Hayley's Essay on History</td><td>22-23</td></tr><tr><td>Priestley's Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion</td><td>[24]-33</td></tr><tr><td>Soame Jenyns's Disquisitions on Several Subjects</td><td>34-36</td></tr><tr><td>Charles Wolley. A Two Years' Journal in New York</td><td>37-38</td></tr><tr><td>William and Edmund Burke. Account of the European Settlements in America</td><td>[39-42]</td></tr></table>

M 228

"View from Lowther Terrace".

(1) Et jam summa procul villarum etc. (This is from Virgil, Eclogues I.82. The passage reads: Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.)

(2) quot. from Lord Lyttelton: Blue Vapours rills
And the last sunbeams gild the distant hills
(This is from Lyttelton's *Poems*, Uncertainty. Eclogue I. To Mr. Pope; the last two lines. JB was quoting from memory. The lines are: Blue vapours rose along the mazy rills, And Light's last blushes ting'd the distant hills.)

Leigh's Dedication. This is surely an "Addition" for the *Hypochondriacks* (see M 119.1); for essays on Dedications, Nos. 60, 61 (1782, Sept. and Oct.) There is evidence JB was collecting Additions into the 90's.

M 228

JB's visits to Lowther Castle: (with ref. to "View from Lowther Terrace")
1786 -- at Lowther betw. 15 and say 20 Dec. (race)

fits well, except the "view" would have been in the winter.

Wyllie's petition fits in well here being an Ayrshire man, etc.

1787 -- at Lowther 23 Dec, left 29 Dec. Snowbound there -- JB very miserable and runs away to Penrith. -- too cold to be getting the view from Lowther Terrace.

1788 -- on Northern Circuit, 1 July to 15 Aug. The Journal ends with
29 July, but James Ross's expense account shows tolls to Lowther
from Carlisle 30 July and Lowther to Kendall on 2 Aug. (A 46).

--- 3 Oct to 9 Oct. Another jaunt to Carlisle. Ment. in Book of
Company. JB returned to Auchinleck on 9 Oct. No ment. of a visit
to Lowther, but possible. These are possible dates for the terrace

1789 -- at Lowther Castle 18 -23 May. (J1. BP.xvii.112-117). This is a
very good date as it was summer and JB at leisure; he ments. a num
ber of books he read but not the Pills.

-- again at Lowther, 10-22, 24-28 Aug. In miserable spirits after
M.M's death, but "forced an appearance of doing wonderfully well"
(letter to Temple, Letters ii.377); wig stolen.

-- 1 Oct, set out for London with 4 of his children. He and Sandie passed the night at Lowther (Letters ii.379)

M 234

Matthew Green. *The Spleen* "Permit ye far etc." The passage begins: *Permit, ye fair, your idol form,*

**********

Shine but on age, you melt its snow,
Again fires long extinguish'd glow,
And, charm'd by witchery of eyes,
Blood long congealed liquefies,
True miracle, and fairly done
By heads, which are ador'd while on.

The letter wrapper, directed in Lawrie's hand; postmark SE ?16.

The Reg. Let. records a letter of which this may be the wrapper:

Rec'd 18 [Sept, 1777] At Ashbourne Mr. Lawrie that my Wife and Children are all well.

The expense account: There is no mention of dining in Durham on the way back to Edinburgh from Ashbourne in the Journal, but JB mentions only the inns where he stayed overnight.

M 237

Notes

(7) Ovid. Amores. 1.15.5. Acc. to Loeb
Classics: nec me verbosas leges ediscere
nec me
ingrato vocem prostituisse
foro?

Mortale est, quod quaeris, opus. mihi
fama perennis
quaeritur, in toto semper ut orbe canar.
"nor learn garrulous legal lore, nor set
my voice for common case in the ungrate-
ful forum?

It is but mortal, the work you ask of me;
but my quest is glory through all the
years, to be ever known in song throughout the earth."

(10) Tacitus. There was an Elzevir Tacitus,
2v., 1640, in the Auchinleck sale.
I looked up the 1640 ed. at Yale (it is
in lv.) and found JB's page ref. to Lib.
11, "p228" should actually be p.229
(Corbulo's canal in Holland). His page
ref. lib.13 p.305 is correct; *aggerem*
means dam or dyke.

I looked up the 1634 Elzevir in the Yale
Library and found the page refs. were
'way off.

M 245

READING. Periodicals and Newspapers. Notes
and Excerpts

See also:

M 34 (extracts from *London Chronicle*)

M 212 (Parodies)

M 263:2 (a ref. to *London Magazine*)

L 334 (extract from *The Oracle*)

M 245

(1) The *Analytical Review*, xiii.272-73 (July 1792). "The Character of Dr. Johnson, etc." British Museum Cat., entry under Temple, William Johnston, also under Johnson, Samuel. *Appendix -- Biography*: The Character of Doctor Johnson. With illustrations from Mrs. Piozzi, Sir John Hawkins, and Mr. Boswell. [By W.J. Temple?] pp.23. 1792. 8°. (publ. by C. Dilly). In a letter by FAP, in TLS, 22 May 1930, he says that Temple really wrote the Character in the early 80's before SJ's death, only the last paragraph being added at the time of publication. See Temple's letter to Jerningham, 14 Apr 1785: "So Dr. Johnson is at last gone! ... I can show you a character of him that I believe you will allow to be a true likeness; but Boswell must not see it, nor know who drew it." In it Temple criticised SJ, ex-tolled JB.

(2) The *Annual Register* for 1766.

(3) The *Caledonian Mercury* (separate memorandum, 7 Dec 1774). The original epigram as it appeared in the *London Magazine* for June 1774, p.296: To tell us why banks thus in Scotland obtain/ Requires not the head of a Newton or Napier/ Without Calculation, the matter's quite plain/ When there's plenty of rags you'll have plenty of paper." Yale does not have the *Caledonian Mercury* for 1774, so I could not see how the "stolen" epigram was "disfigured".

(4) The *Edinburgh Magazine*. This is apparently The Edinburgh Magazine; or Literary Miscellany. v.1, Jan 1785 - 1803. Merged into *Scots Magazine* with n.s. vol. 22 (Dec. 1803). Yale has only two scattered vols. (1797 and 1803). From the *Union List* I was able to reckon that the 1st series ended in 1792; n.s. vols. 1-2 were for 1793; n.s. vols. 3-4 were for 1794, vol. 4 beginning July 1794.

(5) The *General Evening Post* (London) 5 July 1788.

(6) The *Monthly Review*, lxxiii, 377-78 (Nov. 1785 -- not "1786" as JB wrote). A review of De l'Etat Religieux. By the Abbé B--- and the Abbé B---- of B. Advocate in Parliament. Octavo. Paris, 1784. In J.M. Quérard, Les Supercheries Devoilées, i. cols. 436-37: B*** (l'abbé de) et l'abbé B. De B***, (avocat en parlement). [les abbés de Bonnefoy et de Bernard]. De l'état religieux ... son esprit, son établissement et ses progrès, services qu'il a rendus à l'Eglise, etc. Paris, Veuve Hérissant, 1784, in 12°. In Yale cat. I found Bonnefoy du Bonyon, François Lambert, abbé, 1749-1830. In Bibliothèque Nationale Cat. the book is entered under Bernard, Abbé de (no first name given).

(7) The *Monthly Review*, lxxvii(July 1787) p.86. The book reviewed is Webb, Rev. James, *Sermons on several important subjects* ... by the late Rev. James Webb. London, Buckland, 1785. Musgrave gives: Rev. James Webb Pastor of Fetter Lane. Gent. Mag. obit. says he was a dissenting clergyman. The reviewer says his sermons are very Calvinistical.

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