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Rh It is much to be wish'd, in justice to Dr. Johnson's character, that the many jocular and ironical speeches which have been recorded of him had been mark'd as such, for the information of those who were unacquainted with him, when not so apparently unlikely as the above is to be taken in a literal sense. If he could conceive a hatred for any person, it was only for the vicious.

I shall never forget the exalted character he drew of his Friend Mr. Langton, nor with what energy, what fond delight he expatiated in his praise, giving him every perfection that could adorn humanity. Particularly, I remember, he dwelt on his mental acquirements, as a Scholar, a Philosopher, and a Divine, to which he added the finishing polish of the fine Gentleman. A literary Lady, Miss H. More, who was present seem'd much struck with admiration, not only perhaps of the excellence of Mr. Langton's character, but of Dr. Johnson's, which appear'd, I thought, with redoubled lustre, reflected from his luminous display of the virtues of his Friend.

This brings to my remembrance the unparallell'd eulogium which the late Lord Bath made on (a lady he was

intimately