Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 347
ht to be as muchhardened to those vexations as him-self. He was angry with Boswell forcomplaining of a headache, withMrs. Thrale for grumblingabout the dust on the road,or the smell of the kitchen.These were, in his phrase,foppish lamentations,which people ought to beashamed to utter in a worldso… … Tiiouuti iits Health was notGood. Samuel Johnson 315 unless they reduced the loser absolutely to beggary,moved him very little. People whose hearts had beensoftened by prosperity might weep, he said, for suchevents; but all that could be expected of a plain manwas not to laugh. He was not much…
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