Life of Johnson.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20296, 4 May 1934, Page 6

Life of Johnson.

TITANY INSTANCES of his resolution may be mentioned. One day, at Mr Beauclerk's house in the country, when two large dogs were fighting, he went up to them, and beat them till they separated; and at another time, when told of the danger there was that a gun might burst if charged with many balls, he put in six or seven, and fired it off against a wa'l Mr Langton told me, that when they were swimming together near Oxford, he cautioned Dr Tohnson against a pool, whim was reckoned particularly dangerous; upon which Johnson directly swam into it. He told me himself that one night he was attacked in the street by four men, :o whom he would not yield, but kept thcrn all at bay. till the watch came up, an'? carried both him and them to the roundhouse. In the playhouse at Lichfield, as Mr Garrick informed me, Johnson having for a moment quitted a chair which wa placed for him between the a gentleman took possession of it, and when Johnson on his return civilly demanded his seat, rudely refused to give it up; upon which Johnson laid hold of it, and tossed him and the chair into the pit.