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208 BOSWELLIANA.
as he certainly could not be fond of John Bull. * Sir/ said he,
' I hate John Bull, but I love his daughters.' "
Doctor Blair.
" Boswell was walking with some ladies at Kanelagh, when a
large young woman passed by. ' That lady/ said Boswell, ' has
a great deal of beauty ; it cannot, indeed, well be exprest, but
it may be fdt! "
" Lady Fanny Montgomerie* met with a very handsome woman
in the highlands of Scotland, who had so much simplicity of
manner that she had never seen herself but in the water. Lady
Fanny showed her a little pocket mirror, which gave her a clear
view of her own face, and asked her if she ever had seen
anything so handsome. ' Madam,' said she, ' by your asking
that question I should imagine that your ladyship had never
seen such a glass as this.' " Lord Eglintoune.
" Boswell was talking away one evening in St. James's Park
with much vanity. Said his friend Temple, ' We have heard
of many kinds of hobby-horses, but, Boswell, you ride upon
yourself/ "
" A stupid fellow was declaiming against that kind of raillery
called roasting, and was saying, I am sure I have a great deal of
good nature ; I never roast any. ' Why, sir,' said Boswell,
' you are an exceedingly good-natured man, to be sure ; but I can
give you a better reason for your never roasting any. Sir, you
never roast any, because yoa have got no fire.' "
" A keen Scott [sic) [Dr. Ogilvie] f was standing up for his
explained by the attacks made on Macpherson by Dr. Johnson and other
EngUsh writers, in reference to the authenticity of Ossian's poems.
* Lady Frances Montgomerie was daughter of Alexander, ninth Earl
of EgHnton, and sister of the tenth and eleventh earls. She died
unmarried.
f Dr. John Ogilvie, was minister of Midmar, Aberdeenshire. He
composed many volumes of poetry, and several of his lyrics have
obtained celebrity. He died in 1814, at an advanced age.