[786] Boswell’s Johnson, i. 11; iii. 362; v. 52.
[787] Scots Magazine, 1797, p. 292.
[788] Tytler’s Life of Lord Kames, ii. 228.
[789] Scotland and Scotsmen, i. 176.
[790] Crazy.
[791] Loup is a cognate word with leap, and signifies to run. A landlouper is a runagate; one constantly shifting from one place to another.
[792] Johnson’s Works, ix. 158.
[793] Quarterly Review, No. 71, p. 225.
[794] Ib.
[795] Garrick Correspondence, i. 436.
[796] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 156.
[797] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 172. Tout is the blast of a horn.
[798] Davies’s Life of Garrick, ii. 115.
[799] Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches, ed. 1857, ii. 209.
[800] Croker’s Boswell, 8vo. ed. p. 826.
[801] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 207.
[802] Quarterly Review, No. 71, p. 209.
[803] Croker’s Correspondence, ii. 32.
[804] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, v. 336.
[805] C. Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel, 1870, p. 158.
[806] Lord Cockburn’s Memorials, pp. 380, 392, and Lockhart’s Scott, vii. 33.
[807] Rogers’s Boswelliana, p. 195, and Notes and Queries, 3rd Series, vii. 197.
[808] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 315.
[809] Croker’s Boswell, p. 620.
[810] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, vii. 33.
[811] Macaulay’s Miscellaneous Writings, ed. 1871, p. 369.
[812] Johnson imagines Burke falling into chance conversations on two occasions; once on shunning a shower under a shed, and another time on stepping aside to take shelter from a drove of oxen.—Life of Johnson, iv. 275; v. 34.
[813] “Johnson. I remember once being with Goldsmith in Westminster Abbey. While we surveyed the Poets’ Corner I said to him,
When we got to Temple Bar he stopped me, pointed to the heads upon it, and slily whispered me,
Ib. ii. 238.
[814] See Boswell’s will in Rogers’s Boswelliana, p. 185.
[815] Carlyle’s Reminiscences, ed. 1881, i. 178.
[816] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1771, p. 545.
[817] Humphry Clinker, iii. 85.
[818] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 212, 216.
[819] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 398.
[820] Traditions of Edinburgh, ed. 1825, ii. 161.
[821] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 397, 407.
[822] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 383, iii. 404.
[823] Gibbon’s Miscellaneous Works, ed. 1814, i. 232.
[824] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 74.
[825] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 402.
[826] Burke’s Correspondence, iii. 301.
[828] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 394.
[829] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 411.
[830] Burnet’s History of his own Time, ed. 1818, ii. 443.
[831] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 409.
[832] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 364.
[833] Smollett’s History of England, iii. 169.
[834] Walpole’s Letters, i. 407.
[835] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 407.
[836] Ib., p. 413.
[837] Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, ed. 1869, p. 145.
[838] Darnhall is at present Lord Elibank’s seat; but in Paterson’s British Itinerary (ed. 1800, i. 227; ii. 557) it is described as the seat of the Hon. George Murray, while Ballencrieff is mentioned as Lord Elibank’s. Murray is the family name of the Elibanks.
[839] Humphry Clinker, ii. 219.
[840] Walpole’s Letters, ii. 32.
[841] Quarterly Review, No. 71, p. 199.
[842] Walpole’s Letters, ii. 40.
[843] Home’s Works, i. 54.
[844] Dr. A. Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 298, and D. Stewart’s Life of Robertson, ed. 1802, p. 5.
[845] History of England, ed. 1773, v. 504.
[846] Robertson’s Works, ed. 1802, v. 46.
[847] Dr. A. Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 267.
[848] Horace Walpole’s Letters, ix. 103.
[849] When I had the honour of meeting Mr. Gladstone in his visit to Oxford early this year, he quoted this passage in his strong deep voice, and praised it highly.
[850] At Ballencrieff there is no river, but perhaps Johnson was thinking of the Firth of Forth.
[851] This interesting tradition comes to me from my friend General Cadell, C.B., of Cockenzie House, to whom I am indebted for the accompanying sketch of the trees.
[853] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 168.
[854] Walpole’s Letters, v. 441.
[855] Letters of Hume to Strahan, pp. 174, 265.
[856] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 210.
[857] Dr. A. Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 437.
[858] Tour in Scotland, ed. 1776, ii. 259, 260.
[859] Twiss’s Life of Lord Eldon, ed. 1846, i. 57, and the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1771, p. 543.
[860] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 268.
[861] The original letter of which a facsimile is given is in my possession. See Appendix B.