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Rh pleasant humour, nor warm enough for love. This is talked of sometimes among the younger men, but as a thing they have heard of rather than felt; and as a discourse that becomes them rather than affects them." All this was the very reverse of Boswell's eager and wild youth, though perhaps not



unlike the character of his father and grandfather. There was one thing in common between Johnson and the old judge, both were sound scholars. At Auchinleck there was a library "which," says Boswell, "in curious editions of the Greek and Roman classics is, I suppose, not excelled by any private collection in Great Britain."