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phraseology and modes of speech as can never be literally translated or understood by foreigners; he allowed the discrimination to be just. – Let any one who doubts it, try to translate one of Addison’s Spectators into Latin, French, or Italian; and though so easy, familiar, and elegant, to an Englishman, as to give the intellect no trouble; yet he would find the transfusion into another language extremely difficult, if not impossible. But a Rambler, Adventurer, or Idler, of Johnson, would fall into any classical or European language, as easily as if it had been originally conceived in it. B.]

pp. 129–30, 17 March 1752

The following… by dreams.] om. 1791, 1793. PCA inserts the text of these three paragraphs at p. 133 below, after ‘… cannot be read without wonder.’

p. 130, 28 March 1752

March 28… were lawful.] om. 1791.

pp. 157–8, 6 May 1755

1791 omits the letter to Bennet Langton dated 6 May 1755.

p. 164, July 1755

On the 13th… contracted in the week.] om. 1791.

pp. 174–6, 24 December 1757

1791 omits the letter to Bennet Langton dated 9 January 1758.

pp. 180–81, 27 June 1758

1791 omits the letters to Bennet Langton dated 27 June and 21 September 1758.

p. 185, 1759

An inquiry… subsequent years.] 1791 places this passage later, at the end of the entries for 1761.

p. 190–91, 18 October 1760

1791 omits the letter to Bennet Langton dated 18 October 1760.

p. 198, 1762

1791 includes at this point the second letter to Baretti dated 21 December 1762 (see above, pp. 202–3).

p. 200, 20 July 1762

1791 and 1793 omit the letter to Bute dated 20 July 1762.

p. 202, 3 November 1762

1791 omits the letter to Bute dated 3 November 1762.

p. 228, 14 July 1763

1791 omits the paragraph on Jacobitism beginning ‘Yet there is no doubt…’

p. 254, 1764

… distinctly overheard.] 1799 inserts the following note from Charles Burney: [It used to be imagined at Mr. Thrale’s, when Johnson retired to a window or corner of the room, by perceiving his lips in motion, and hearing a murmur without audible articulation, that he was praying; but this was not always the case, for I was once, perhaps unperceived by him, writing at a table, so near the place of his retreat, that I heard him repeating some lines in an ode of Horace, over and over again, as if by iteration, to exercise the organs of speech, and fix the ode in his memory:

Audiet cives acuisse ferrum

Quo graves Persae melius perirent,

Audiet pugnas…

It was during the American War. B.]

p. 255, 1764

Generally… before the wind.] om. 1791, 1793.

p. 256, July 1765

The concluding… deliver me!] om. 1791.

p. 261, October 1765

From one… his holy hand.] om. 1791.

p. 268–71, 9 March 1766

1791 omits the letters to Bennet Langton dated 9 March and 10 May 1766.

p. 286, 2 August 1767

1791 omits the letter to Bennet Langton dated 10 October 1767.

p. 289, Spring 1768

Dr. John Campbell… have afforded us.] om. 1791.

pp. 291–2, Spring 1768

Here he discovered… way to keep him.] om. 1791.

pp. 328–31, 1770

Speaking of Homer… laudo tamen.”] om. 1791.

p. 332, Spring 1771

1791 omits the letter to Bennet Langton dated 20 March 1771.

p. 335, 29 August 1771

1791 omits the letter to Bennet Langton dated 29 August 1771.

pp. 370–71, 24 February 1773

While a former… London, March 4, 1773.] om. 1791.

p. 411–12, 5 July 1774

1791 omits the letter to Bennet Langton dated 5 July 1774, and the letter to Robert Levet dated 16 August 1774.

p. 415, 25 Octobrbr lass="indent">1791 omits the letter to Perkins dated 25 October 1774.

pp. 425–6, 1775

Mr. Tytler… of the inhabitants.] om. 1791.

p. 448, 8 April 1775

Nor did he… better than yours.] om. 1791.

p. 454–5, 18 April 1775

1791 omits the letter to Bennet Langton dated 17 April 1775.

p. 458, 18 April 1775

the audience… poor Polly’s life.] om. 1791.

p. 463, 27 May 1775

1791 omits the letter to Bennet Langton dated 21 May 1775.

p. 466-7, 18 September 1775

1791 omits the letters to Robert Levet dated 18 September and 22 October 1775.

p. 467, 16 November 1775

1791 and PCA omit the letter to Johnson from Boswell dated 24 October 1775.