Note 329 — XVIII. PEMBROKE COLLEGE.
Reading edition
“Johnson could not bear to be painted with his defects … ‘He [Reynolds] may paint himself as deaf as he pleases, but I will not be Blinking Sam’” (Piozzi).
Reading edition
“Johnson could not bear to be painted with his defects … ‘He [Reynolds] may paint himself as deaf as he pleases, but I will not be Blinking Sam’” (Piozzi).