...Johnson, professed admirer of the compiler, did not escape the cynicism of her busy pen : — EPITAPH Here lies Sam Johnson — Reader have a Care, Tread...Dispute, A Christian and a Scholar — but a Brute ! Wrote by Mr Soame Gennings. Nevertheless Diana next quotes cheerfully : — To A MALIGNANT SLANDERER...

...JENNINGS, Esq. sent to Mrs DICKENSON. " Here lies pooi J n, reader have care 1 Tread lightly lest you rouse a sleeping bear. Religious, moral, generous, and humane, He was ; but self-sufficient, rude, and vain : 111 bred, and overbearing in dispute ; A scholar and a Christian, yet a brute. Would...

..."Literary Magazine" for 1757; Soame Jenyns' retort was one of the few Here lies Sam Johnson:—Reader, have a care, Tread lightly, lest you wake a sleeping...of, and overbearing in, dispute, A Christian and a scholar—but a brute. Soame Jenyns,—this little, good-natured slight fellow with the two wens,—energetically...

...on each other, and this supplied him with his opportunity. The epitaph as originally cast ran thus : Here lies Sam Johnson : Reader, have a care, Tread...dispute, A Christian, and a Scholar — but a Brute. This is the form in which it appears in his works, and no doubt was that in which it was first written....

...Johnson. BY SOAME JKNYNS. Here lies poor Johnson, reader, have a care ; Tread lightly lest you rouse a sleeping bear. Religious, moral, generous and humane He was, but self-sufficient, rude and vain; Ill-bred and overbearing in dispute, A scholar and a Christian and a brute. Would you...

...by Soame Jenyns : — " Here lies poor Johnson ; reader, have a care ; Tread lightly, lest you rouse a sleeping bear. Religious, moral, generous and humane He was ; but self-sufficient, rude and vain ; Ill-bred and overbearing in dispute ; A scholar and a Christian, and a brute. Would...