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 ��in any body they pleased ; and Warren was called/ At his going away, 'You have come in,' said Dr. Johnson, 'at the eleventh hour; but you shall be paid the same with your fellow- labourers. Francis, put into Dr. Warren's coach a copy of the English Poets V

Some years before, some person in a company at Salisbury 2 , of which Dr. Johnson was one, vouched for the company that there was nobody in it afraid of death. ' Speak for yourself, Sir,' said Johnson, ' for indeed I am.' ' I did not say of dying,' replied the other ; ' but of death, meaning its consequences.' 1 And so I mean,' rejoined the Doctor ; ' I am very seriously afraid of the consequences V

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[From the Diary of a Lover of Literature by T. Green of Ipswich, 4to. 1810; and since continued in the Gentleman s Magazine. Croker's Boswell, x. 141.]

Mr. Monney told me he had often met Johnson, and imitated his manner very happily. Johnson came on a visit to the

"Alas! Doctor, I am Dr. Warren." a physician had common sense when He died in a week or two afterwards.' he first settled at Bath, he soon lost According to the Annual Register it all in looking out for bile and giving Warren ' died of spasms in his in to the medical cant of the place.' stomach very unexpectedly, at a mo- European Magazine, 1798, p. 240. ment when Sir G. Baker and Dr. * The Rev. C. G. Andrews, Would- Pitcairn were most sanguine in their ham Rectory, Rochester, a great- hopes of his recovery. His complaint grandson of Dr. Heberden, has the had been a violent erysipelas in his copy of the Lives that belonged to head.' This is confirmed by Lord Dr. Heberden, inscribed (not in Charlemont, who wrote on Aug. 19, Johnson's writing) ' From the author.' 1797: 'As for Dr. W T arren, death 2 Johnson was twice at Salisbury owed him a grudge for the numerous once in 1762, on his way to Devon- victims rescued from his dart, and at shire (Taylor's Reynolds, i. 214), and length revenged himself by that fatal once in 1783, sixteen months before blow on the stomach.' Hist. MSS. his death. Life, iv. 234. Com., Thirteenth Report, App. viii. 3 Ante, ii. 202. 281. 'Dr. Warren used to say that if 'Apres avoir parle de la faussete

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