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- man," as he called him, drank his bottle of Bur-
' gundy, and was exceedingly gay and entertaining.' And as a footnote Boswell adds :
- Let me here express my grateful remembrance of
'Lord Somerville's kindness to me, at a very early
- period. He was the first person of high rank that
- took particular notice of me in the way most flatter-
' ing to a young man, fondly ambitious of being dis- ' tinguished for his literary talents ; and by the ' honour of his encouragement made me think well of '.myself, and aspire to deserve it better. He had a
- happy art of communicating his varied knowledge of
- the world, in short remarks and anecdotes, with a
' quiet pleasant gravity, that was exceedingly engag-
- ing. Never shall I forget the hours which I enjoyed
- with him at his apartments in the Royal Palace of
- Holyrood House, and at his seat near Edinburgh,
- which he himself had formed with an elegant
'taste.'* The vague guess is that this James, thirteenth Baron Somerville, had somewhere fallen in with an
- Boswell's Life of Johnson, Fitzgerald's edit. (London, 1874),
ii. p. 434.
