Life of Johnson.
FOREIGN' minister of no very high talents, who had been in his company for a considerable time quite overlooked, hanpened luckily to mention that he had read some of his “ Rambler” in Italian, and admired it much. This pleased him greatly; he observed that the title had been translated, “T 1 Genio errante,” though I have been told it was rendered more ludicrously. “II Yagabondo”; and finding that tin's minister gave such a proof of his taste, he was all attention to him. and on the first remark which he made, however simple, exclaimed, “ The Amba.ssadour says well—His Excellency observes—” And then he expanded and enriched the little that had been said, in so strong a manner, that it appeared something of consequence This was exceedingly entertaining to the company who were present, and many a time afterwards it furrfished a pleasant topick of merriment: “ The Ambassadour says well,” became a laughable term oi applause, when no mighty matter had been expressed.-
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20509, 10 January 1935, Page 8
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