to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having."’ Mme. D’Arblay’s Diary, i.103.  Shortly afterwards Miss Burney records (ib. p. 121) that Mrs. Thrale said to him:—­’We have told her what you said to Miss More, and I believe that makes her afraid.’  He replied:—­’Well, and if she was to serve me as Miss More did, I should say the same thing to her.’  We have therefore three reports of what he said—­one from Mrs. Thrale indirectly, one from her directly, and the third from Malone.  However severe the reproof was, the Mores do not seem to have been much touched by it.  At all events they enjoyed the meeting with Johnson, and Hannah More needed a second reproof that was conveyed to her through Miss Reynolds.

[1056] Anec. p. 202.  BOSWELL.

[1057] See ante, i. 40, 68, 92, 415, 481; ii. 188, 194; iii. 229; and post, v. 245, note 2.

[1058] Anec. p. 44.  BOSWELL.  See ante, p. 318, note 1, where I quote the passage.

[1059] Ib. p. 23.  BOSWELL.

[1060] Ib. p. 45.  Mr. Hayward says:—­’She kept a copious diary and notebook called Thraliana from 1776 to 1809.  It is now,’ [1861] he continues, ’in the possession of Mr. Salusbury, who deems it of too private and delicate a character to be submitted to strangers, but has kindly supplied me with some curious passages from it.’  Hayward’s Piozzi, i. 6.

[1061] Ib. p. 51 [192].  BOSWELL.

[1062] Anec. p. 193 [51].  BOSWELL.

[1063] Johnson, says Murphy, (Life, p. 96) ’felt not only kindness, but zeal and ardour for his friends.’  ‘Who,’ he asks (ib. p. 144), ‘was more sincere and steady in his friendships?’ ‘Numbers,’ he says (ib. p. 146), ’still remember with gratitude the friendship which he shewed to them with unaltered affection for a number of years.’

[1064] See ante, ii. 285, and iii. 440.

[1065] Johnson’s Works, i. 152, 3.

[1066] In vol. ii. of the Piozzi Letters some of these letters are given.

[1067] He gave Miss Thrale lessons in Latin.  Mme. D’Arblay’s Diary, i. 243 and 427.

[1068] Anec. p. 258.  BOSWELL.

[1069] George James Cholmondeley, Esq., grandson of George, third Earl of Cholmondeley, and one of the Commissioners of Excise; a gentleman respected for his abilities, and elegance of manners.  BOSWELL.  When I spoke to him a few years before his death upon this point, I found him very sore at being made the topic of such a debate, and very unwilling to remember any thing about either the offence or the apology.  CROKER.

[1070] Letters to Mrs. Thrale, vol. ii. p. 12.  BOSWELL.