Prayers and Meditations. in
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1783, April 5. I took leave of Mrs. Thrale. I was much moved. I had some expostulations with her. She said that she was likewise affected. I commended the Thrales with great good will to God ; may my petition have been heard * !
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[In the Auction Catalogue of Messrs. Christie and Co., of June 5, 1888, Lot 67* is ' a leaf of Dr. Johnson's Memorandum Book for the year 1783, containing entries relating to his classical studies, &c.']
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Jime 1 6. I went to bed, and, as I conceive, about 3 in the morning I had a stroke of the palsy.
17. I sent for Dr. Heberden and Dr. Brocklesby. God bless them.
25. Dr. Heberden took leave 2 .
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July 10. Dartford, Northfleet. n. On the Medway.
12. Barber. 13. [Entries illegible.]
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lings. Dr. Johnson, however, looked palsy, Johnson wrote to her : ' I hope at me with great kindness, and not at that what, when I could speak, I spoke all in a discouraging manner.' Early of you and to you will be in a sober Diary of F. Burney, ii. 256. * Sam ' and serious hour remembered by you ; was Samuel Greaves, at whose tavern, and surely it cannot be remembered the Essex Head, Johnson started his but with some degree of kindness, last Club in 1783. Life, iv. 253; I have loved you with virtuous affec- Letters, ii. 390. tion ; I have honoured you with 1 Hawkins's Johnson, p. 553. The sincere esteem. Let not all our en- next day Mrs. Thrale recorded in her dearments be forgotten, but let me Diary : ' I have been very busy pre- have in this great distress your pity paring to go to Bath and save my and your prayers.' Letters, ii. 302. money.' H ay ward's Piozzi, 2nd ed., 2 Hawkins's Johnson^ p. 558. For i. 204. See also Life, iv. 198, n. 4. his illness, see Life^ iv. 227, and Let- Ten weeks later, after his stroke of ters, ii. 300.
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