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pleasant humour, nor warm enough for love. This is talked of sometimes among the younger men, but as a thing they have heard of rather than felt; and as a discourse that becomes them rather than affects them."[1] All this was the very reverse of Boswell's eager and wild youth, though perhaps not
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unlike the character of his father and grandfather. There was one thing in common between Johnson and the old judge, both were sound scholars. At Auchinleck there was a library "which," says Boswell, "in curious editions of the Greek and Roman classics is, I suppose, not excelled by any private collection in Great Britain."
- ↑ Temple's Works, ed. 1757, i. 160.