He invested for her the money
that she made by this play. H. More's _Memoirs_, i. 122, 140.
[861] In April 1784 she records (_ib_. i. 319) that she called on
Johnson shortly after she wrote _Le Bas Bleu_. 'As to it,' she
continues, 'all the flattery I ever received from everybody together
would not make up his sum. He said there was no name in poetry that
might not be glad to own it. All this from Johnson, that parsimonious
praiser!' He wrote of it to Mrs. Thrale on April 19, 1784:--'It is in my
opinion a very great performance.' _Piozzi Letters_, ii. 364. Dr.
Beattie wrote on July 31, 1784:--'Johnson told me with great solemnity
that Miss More was "the most powerful versificatrix" in the English
language.' Forbes's _Beattie_, ed. 1824, p. 320.
[862] See Boswell's _Hebrides_, Aug. 18.
[863] The ancestor of Mr. Murray of Albemarle Street.
[864] See _A Letter to W. Mason, A.M. from J. Murray, Bookseller in
London_; 2d edition, p. 20. BOSWELL.
[865] 'The righteous hath hope in his death.' _Proverbs_, xiv. 32.
[866] See _post_, June 12, 1784.
[867] Johnson, in _The Convict's Address_ (_ante_, p. 141), makes Dodd
say:--'Possibly it may please God to afford us some consolation, some
secret intimations of acceptance and forgiveness.
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