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gories." Under 15 July of his diary of a journey into North Wales the following passage appears:

τὸ πρῶτον Μῶρος, τὸ δὲ δεύτερον εἷλεν Ἐρασμὸς,

τὸ τρίτον ἐκ Μουσῶν στέμμα Μίκυλλος ἔχει.

This was evidently copied from a manuscript at Ashburn, where he was lodging, as Duppa, the first editor of the Journal, notes that Johnson has introduced per by the side of einer in the manuscript.

The Doctor had a strong liking for the two Scaligers, partly on account of the rich biographical material which came to his hand, and partly, perhaps, because he felt that he himself bore some fancied resemblance to them. Of Edmund Smith he says, "He was a man of such estimation among his companions that the casual censures or praises which he dropped in conversation were considered, like those of Scaliger, as worthy of preservation." Might he not have thought with pardonable pride, when writing this, of the faithful "Scotch burr" who was to immortalize him? His respect for the learning of both father and son was very great, and he twice took the opportunity to remark, "Malim cum Scaligero errare quam cum Clavio recte sapere." In 1731 a Miscellany of undergraduate poems appeared at Oxford, containing Johnson's Messiah and a motto from J. C. Scaliger's Poetics, "Ex alieno ingenio Poeta, ex suo tantum versificator." Later, in his Prayers and Meditations, he notes, "Finivi lectionem Conf. Fab. Burdonum," the full title of which is, Accurata Burdonum

1. Bos. III, 190, n. 3; V, 446.

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2. "From the Muses, Sir Thomas More bore away the first crown, Erasmus the second, and Micyllus has the third." Bos. V, 430. The last, named Jacques Moltzer (1503-1558), filled the rôle of Micyllus in The Dream of Lucian as it was played at the College of Frankfort.

3. Lives, II, 19.

4. Ibid. I, 413; Bos. II, 508. Clavius by order of Pope Gregory XIII corrected the calendar and was attacked by Joseph Scaliger.

5. Ibid. I, 72.

Ossian, doubtless felt a real affinity for them. The names of the great commentators, Dutch, Italian, and French, appear as editors of many of the classics upon his shelves. A number of these editors had also made themselves conversant with law and medicine, and Johnson's library possessed many authorities on these subjects, Grotius's great work on the law having its place of honor there. The whole history of humanism, with its triumphs and its controversies, like the learned quarrel between Salmasius and Milton (who was in many respects a typical Renaissance scholar), made an instant appeal to Johnson, who, as has just been noted, found great delight in the anecdotal and biographical side of these men. His library contained the great humanists, such as Isaac Casaubon, the two Scaligers, Longolius, Salmasius, and Erasmus.

The last of these men he knew both directly and through the letters of Baudius, noted in the entries of his diary of a journey into North Wales in 1774.2 In the Life of Milton he quotes from Baudius: "but what Baudius says of Erasmus seems applicable to him [Milton]: 'magis habuit quod fugeret, quam quod sequerentur.' Among his observations for August 7, 1774, he records, "Battologiam ab iteratione, recte distinguit Erasmus. — Mod. Orandi Deum, p. 56–144.” In reading Ciceronianus he notes, "My affection and understanding went along with Erasmus, except that once or twice he somewhat unskilfully entangles Cicero's civil or moral, with his rhetorical, character." Two other references to the works of Erasmus mention Militis Christiani Enchiridion and Erasmus to the Nuns, "full of mystick notions and alle

1. An amusing instance of Johnson's respect for authority occurred when, suffering from a fever, he wrote: "I believe it was not an intermittent, for I took of my own head physick yesterday; and Celsus says, it seems, that if a cathartick be taken the fit will return certo certius. I would bear something rather than Celsus should be detected in an error." Letters I, 220.

2. Bos. V, 444. "Baudius on Erasmus (Baudi Epistolae)."
3. Ibid. V, 444.
4. Ibid. IV, 353-

gories." Under 15 July of his diary of a journey into North Wales the following passage appears:

τὸ πρῶτον Μῶρος, τὸ δὲ δεύτερον εἷλεν Ερασμός,

τὸ τρίτον ἐκ Μουσῶν στέμμα Μίκυλλος ἔχει.

This was evidently copied from a manuscript at Ashburn, where he was lodging, as Duppa, the first editor of the fournal, notes that Johnson has introduced per by the side of ether in the manuscript.

The Doctor had a strong liking for the two Scaligers, partly on account of the rich biographical material which came to his hand, and partly, perhaps, because he felt that he himself bore some fancied resemblance to them. Of Edmund Smith his com

he says, "He was a man of such estimation among panions that the casual censures or praises which he dropped in conversation were considered, like those of Scaliger, as worthy of preservation." Might he not have thought with pardonable pride, when writing this, of the faithful "Scotch burr" who was to immortalize him? His respect for the learning of both father and son was very great, and he twice took the opportunity to remark, "Malim cum Scaligero errare quam cum Clavio recte sapere." In 1731 a Miscellany of undergraduate poems appeared at Oxford, containing Johnson's Messiah and a motto from J. C. Scaliger's Poetics, "Ex alieno ingenio Poeta, ex suo tantum versificator." Later, in his Prayers and Meditations, he notes, "Finivi lectionem Conf. Fab. Burdonum," the full title of which is, Accurata Burdonum

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Ossian, doubtless felt a real affinity for them. The names of the great commentators, Dutch, Italian, and French, appear as editors of many of the classics upon his shelves. A number of these editors had also made themselves conversant with law and medicine, and Johnson's library possessed many authorities on these subjects, Grotius's great work on the law having its place of honor there. The whole history of humanism, with its triumphs and its controversies, like the learned quarrel between Salmasius and Milton (who was in many respects a typical Renaissance scholar), made an instant appeal to Johnson, who, as has just been noted, found great delight in the anecdotal and biographical side of these men. His library contained the great humanists, such as Isaac Casaubon, the two Scaligers, Longolius, Salmasius, and Erasmus.

The last of these men he knew both directly and through the letters of Baudius, noted in the entries of his diary of a journey into North Wales in 1774.2 In the Life of Milton he quotes from Baudius: "but what Baudius says of Erasmus seems applicable to him [Milton]: 'magis habuit quod fugeret, quam quod sequerentur.' Among his observations for August 7, 1774, he records, "Battologiam ab iteratione, recte distinguit Erasmus. - Mod. Orandi Deum, p. 56-144.” In reading Ciceronianus he notes, “My affection and understanding went along with Erasmus, except that once or twice he somewhat unskilfully entangles Cicero's civil or moral, with his rhetorical, character." Two other references to the works of Erasmus mention Militis Christiani Enchiridion and Erasmus to the Nuns, "full of mystick notions and alle

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1. An amusing instance of Johnson's respect for authority occurred when, suffering from a fever, he wrote: "I believe it was not an intermittent, for I took of my own head physick yesterday; and Celsus says, it seems, that if a cathartick be taken the fit will return certo certius. I would bear something rather than Celsus should be detected in an error." Letters I, 220.

2. Bos. V, 444. "Baudius on Erasmus (Baudi Epistolae)."
3. Ibid. V, 444.
4. Ibid. IV, 353.

gories." Under 15 July of his diary of a journey into North Wales the following passage appears:

τὸ πρῶτον Μῶρος, τὸ δὲ δεύτερον εἷλεν Ἐρασμός,

τὸ τρίτον ἐκ Μουσῶν στέμμα Μίκυλλος ἔχει.

This was evidently copied from a manuscript at Ashburn, where he was lodging, as Duppa, the first editor of the Journal, notes that Johnson has introduced per by the side of elev in the manuscript.

The Doctor had a strong liking for the two Scaligers, partly on account of the rich biographical material which came to his hand, and partly, perhaps, because he felt that he himself bore some fancied resemblance to them. Of Edmund Smith he says, "He was a man of such estimation among his companions that the casual censures or praises which he dropped in conversation were considered, like those of Scaliger, as worthy of preservation." Might he not have thought with pardonable pride, when writing this, of the faithful "Scotch burr" who was to immortalize him? His respect for the learning of both father and son was very great, and he twice took the opportunity to remark, "Malim cum Scaligero errare quam cum Clavio recte sapere." In 1731 a Miscellany of undergraduate poems appeared at Oxford, containing Johnson's Messiah and a motto from J. C. Scaliger's Poetics, "Ex alieno ingenio Poeta, ex suo tantum versificator." Later, in his Prayers and Meditations, he notes, “Finivi lectionem Conf. Fab. Burdonum," the full title of which is, Accurata Burdonum

1. Bos. III, 190, n. 3; V, 446.

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2. "From the Muses, Sir Thomfas More bore away the first crown, Erasmus the second, and Micyllus has the third." Bos. V, 430. The last, named Jacques Moltzer (1503-1558), filled the rôle of Micyllus in The Dream of Lucian as it was played at the College of Frankfort.

3. Lives, II, 19.

4. Ibid. I, 413; Bos. II, 508. Clavius by order of Pope Gregory XIII corrected the calendar and was attacked by Joseph Scaliger.

5. Ibid. I, 72.

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