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Life of Johnson, Volume 4, 1780-1784

Note 1228 — THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (continued 7)

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Johnson, three days after his stroke of palsy (ante, p. 230), wrote:—'When I waked, I found Dr. Brocklesby sitting by me. He fell to repeating Juvenal's ninth satire; but I let him see that the province was mine.' Piozzi Letters, ii. 274.

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