=22= 10. =Rasselas.= Had Johnson written nothing else, says Boswell, _Rasselas_ "would have rendered his name immortal in the world of literature.... It has been translated into most, if not all, of the modern languages." =22= 12. =Miss Lydia Languish.= Of course plays are not necessarily written to be read, but Sheridan's well-known comedy, _The Rivals_, is decidedly readable. Every one should be familiar with Miss Languish and Mrs. Malaprop. =23= 8. =Bruce.= The _Dictionary of National Biography_ says that James Bruce--whose _Travels to Discover the Sources of the Nile_, five volumes, appeared in 1790--"will always remain the poet, and his work the epic, of African travel." =23= 13. =Mrs. Lennox.= A woman whose literary efforts Johnson encouraged so much as he did Mrs. Lennox's is certainly worth looking up in the index to Boswell's _Johnson_.--=Mrs. Sheridan=, the dramatist's mother, gave Johnson many an entertaining evening in her home. She and her son entered heartily into the lively, stimulating conversations he loved. =23= 25. =Hector ... Aristotle.= The sacking of Troy is generally assigned to the twelfth century B.C. Aristotle lived eight centuries later.--=Julio Romano.= An Italian painter of the fifteenth century. =24= 5. =the Lord Privy Seal.= Some documents require only the privy seal; others must have the great seal too. For Johnson's admission that the printer was wise in striking out the reference alluded to, see the index to Boswell's _Johnson_, under _Gower_. =24= 14. =Oxford.= By recalling what Macaulay said in the early part of the essay (=10= 26, 27) about Oxford, and by bearing in mind what House [of Stuart? of Hanover?] George the Third belonged to, one sees point to "was becoming loyal." =24= 14-18. Study these four short sentences in connection with the preceding sentence beginning "George the Third." To what extent are they a repetition? To what extent an explanation? =24= 22. =accepted.= When, in answer to Johnson's question to Lord Bute, "Pray, my Lord, what am I expected to do for this pension?" he received the ready reply, "It is not given you for anything you are to do, but for what you have done," he hesitated no longer. Three hundred a year was a large sum in Johnson's eyes at that time. Whether he wrote less than he would have written without it may be questioned, says Mr. Hill, but he adds that probably "without the pension he would not have lived to write the second greatest of his works--the _Lives of the Poets_." =25= 19. =a ghost ... Cock Lane.= If you will read Boswell's account of the affair, you will probably conclude that Johnson was not quite so "weak" as Macaulay implies. =25= 26. =Churchill.= One of the reigning wits of the day, Boswell says. =26= 3. =The preface.= Other critics speak with more enthusiasm of the good sense and the clear expression of the preface, and find that these qualities are not altogether lacking in the notes.