...him on every side; yet if he should be hanged, none of' 1 Compare Pascal, above, pp. 3i;ff. ~" " 1769 them will eat a slice of plum-pudding the less. Sir,...feeling goes a very little way in depressing the mind." I told him that I had dined lately at Foote's, who showed me a letter which he had received from Tom...

...very little way in depressing the mind." I told him that I had dined lately at Foote's, who shewed me a letter which he had received from Tom Davies,...he had not been able to sleep from the concern he felton account of " This sad affair of Baretti" begging of him to try if he could suggest any thing...

...only different modes of the same thing. They are both death ; they are eat a slice of plumb-pudding the less. Sir, that sympathetic feeling goes a very little way in depressing the mind." It was perhaps this passage which provoked the parody on the Life of J. in The Looker On (published...

..."there's Baretti, who is to be tried for his life to-morrow. Friends have risen up for him on every side; yet, if he should be hanged, none of them will eat a slice of plum pudding the less." This is often quoted as proof of the common sense of Dr. Johnson: it is proof,...

...condolence, the customs of the world scarcely admit of rigid veracity. Dr. Johnson, Idler, No. 50. SIR, that sympathetic feeling goes a very little way in depressing the mind. Ibid., B, II, 94. THE least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness, than the...

...different modes of the same thing. They are both death j they are eat a slice of plumb-pudding the lees. Sir, that sympathetic feeling goes a very little way in depressing the mind." It was perhaps this passage which provoked the parody on the Life of J. in The Looker On (published...

...Johnson and the Petty Particular', Transactions of the Johnson Society (Lichfield) (1976), 40-6 (p. 42). 'if he should be hanged, none of them will eat a slice of plum-pudding the less'. And as for the cult of sensibility: 'You will find these very feeling people are not very ready to...

...depressing the mind.' I told him that I had dined lately at Foote's, who showed me a letter to him from Tom Davies, telling him that he had not been able to sleep from the concern which he felt on account of this sad affair ofBaretti, begging of him to try if he could suggest anything...

...risen up for him on every side, yet if he should be hanged, none of them would eat a slice of pudding the less. Sir, that sympathetic feeling goes a very little way in depressing the mind.' " \ Tyburn Tree was the usual end of the " highwayman," as people in the days of Queen Anne and the...