I am therefore exceedingly unwilling that any thing, however slight, which my illustrious friend thought it worth his while to express, with any degree of point, should perish.
I have just been enjoying the very great happiness of a visit from my illustrious friend, Pascal Paoli.
The next morning my illustrious friend met me at an early hour, and he was greatly overjoyed at hearing my sentiments now chime so much in unison with his own.
I spent the following night without sleep, or nearly so; and the next morning, by the time the sun arose, I was again abroad, and in the company of my illustrious friend.
My illustrious friend and I parted with assurances of affectionate regard.
I therefore cannot venture to avail myself much of a biographical sketch of Johnson which he published, being one among the various persons ambitious of appending their names to that of my illustrious friend.
As a proof of it, I shall quote from his London the passage, in which he speaks of my illustrious friend.
To have the fame of my illustrious friend, and his faithful biographer, echoed from the New World is extremely flattering; and my grateful acknowledgements shall be wafted across the Atlantick.
My illustrious friend, I thought, did not sufficiently admire Shenstone[1333].
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