Johnson's judgment, receives more and more
confirmation by hearing what, since his death, Dr. Johnson has said
concerning them; a few evenings ago, he was at Mr. Vesey's, where Lord
Althorpe, who was one of a numerous company there, addressed Dr. Johnson
on the subject of Mr. Beauclerk's death, saying, "Our CLUB has had a
great loss since we met last." He replied, "A loss, that perhaps the
whole nation could not repair!" The Doctor then went on to speak of his
endowments, and particularly extolled the wonderful ease with which he
uttered what was highly excellent. He said, that "no man ever was so
free when he was going to say a good thing, from a LOOK that expressed
that it was coming; or, when he had said it, from a look that expressed
that it had come." At Mr. Thrale's, some days before when we were
talking on the same subject, he said, referring to the same idea of his
wonderful facility, "That Beauclerk's talents were those which he
had felt himself more disposed to envy, than those of any whom he had
known.
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