The Life of Samuel Johnson
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1290. a lady: Anne Penny.
1291. A… CVRAVER: ‘Alpha Omega | To Samuel Johnson, | a grammarian and critic | of great skill in English literature; | a poet admirable for the light of his sentences | and the weight of his words; | a most grave teacher of virtue | an excellent man of singular example, | who lived 75 years, 2 months, 14 days. | He died on the 13 December in the year of Christ 1784, | was buried in the Church of St Peter, Westminster, | the 20 December 1784. | His literary friends and companions | by a collection of money | caused this monument to be made.’
1292. ENMAKAPEΣΣIΠONΩNANTAIOΣEIHAMOIBH: An alteration by Dr Samuel Parr of a line of Dionysius Periegetes (l. 1186) which Johnson himself had used to conclude the final Rambler paper (208, 4 March 1752): Aντων x μαxαων ανταζιo ιη αμoιβη. Johnson himself translated the line into a couplet: ‘Celestial Pow’rs! that piety regard, | From you my labours wait their last reward.’
1293. Faciebat… m.dcc.lxxxxv: Made by John Bacon, sculptor, in the year of Christ 1795.
1294. laudari… viro: ‘To be praised by one whom all men praise.’
1295. vivida vis: Lively force.
1296. Olla Podrida: The Olla Podrida was a periodical published at Oxford in 1787.
1297. of him… much will be required: Luke 12:48.
1298. If in this life… miserable: Cf. 1 Corinthians 15:19.
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