Life of Johnson.
QN WEDNESDAY, April 21, I dined with him at Mr Thrale’s. A gentleman attacked Garrick for being vain. Johnson. “No wonder, Sir. that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.” Boswell “ And such bellows too. Lord Mansfield with his cheeks like to burst: Lord Chatham like an A£olus. I have read such notes from them to him, as were enough to turn his head.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20275, 9 April 1934, Page 6
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