=4= 1-2. "It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority."--Johnson, quoted by Boswell. Although aware of what he considered the defects of his college, Johnson loved Pembroke as long as he lived. He delighted in boasting of its eminent graduates and would have left to it his house at Lichfield had not wiser friends induced him to bequeath it to some poor relatives. =4= 15-16. =his father died.= "I now therefore see that I must make my own fortune. Meanwhile let me take care that the powers of my mind be not debilitated by poverty, and that indigence do not force me into any criminal act."--Johnson, quoted by Boswell. =5= 32. =Walmesley.= "I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find."--Johnson, quoted by Boswell. =6= 13. =Politian.= Another of "the great restorers of learning" (see =2= 31). His beginning of a translation of the _Iliad_ into Latin attracted the attention of Lorenzo de' Medici, under whose patronage he became one of the first scholars of Italy. =6= 17. =fell in love.= Boswell says that Johnson's early attachments to the fair sex were "very transient," and considers it but natural that when the passion of love once seized him it should be exceedingly strong, concentrated as it was in one object. =6= 22. =Queensberrys and Lepels.= Families of high rank in England. =7= 3-4. =half ludicrous.= Carlyle says it is no matter for ridicule that the man "whose look all men both laughed at and shuddered at, should find any brave female heart, to acknowledge, at first sight and hearing of him, 'This is the most sensible man I ever met with'; and then, with generous courage, to take him to itself, and say Be thou mine!... Johnson's deathless affection for his Tetty was always venerable and noble." =7= 6-7. At Edial. Although this enterprise did not prosper, the man, as Carlyle says, "was to become a Teacher of grown gentlemen, in the most surprising way; a man of Letters, and Ruler of the British Nation for some time,--not of their bodies merely, but of their minds; not over them, but _in_ them." =7= 13. =David Garrick.= The mere fact that this celebrated actor and successful manager brought out twenty-four of Shakspere's plays is reason enough why we should look him up. A slight knowledge of his career enables one to enjoy all the more the frequent references to him in Boswell's _Life of Johnson_. After reading the sketch in the _Encyclopædia Britannica_ it would be a good plan to read Boswell's references consecutively by means of the index. =8= 9. =Fielding.= For an enjoyable short sketch of the first great English novelist, see Thackeray's _English Humourists_. =8= 10. =The Beggar's Opera=, by John Gay, appeared in 1728. =8= 19. =knot.= See _The Century Dictionary_.