Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. DURING THE LAST _TWENTY YEARS OF HIS LIFE_. BY Hesther Lynch Piozzi. Mrs. Piozzi, by her second marriage, was by her first marriage the Mrs. Thrale in whose house at Streatham Doctor Johnson was, after the year of his first introduction, 1765, in days of infirmity, an honoured and a cherished friend. The year of the beginning of the friendship was the year in which Johnson, fifty-six years old, obtained his degree of LL.D. from Dublin, and--though he never called himself Doctor--was thenceforth called Doctor by all his friends.…
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