Mince Pie; Adventures On the Sunny Side of Grub Street
Mince Pie; Adventures On the Sunny Side of Grub Street
Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957
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To-morrow I purpose to regulate my room. At Easter, 1765, he confesses sadly that he often lies abed until two in the afternoon; which, after all, was not so deplorable, for he usually went to bed very late. Boswell has spoken of "the unseasonable hour at which he had habituated himself to expect the oblivion of repose." On New Year's Day, 1767, he prays: "Enable me, O Lord, to use all enjoy- ments with due temperance, preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep." Two years later than th...is he writes: "I am not yet in a state to form many resolu- tions; I purpose and hope to rise early in the morning at eight, and by degrees at six; eight being the latest hour to which bedtime can be properly extended; and six the earliest that the present system of life requires." One of the most pathetic of his entries is thfl following, on September 18, 1768: [129] Mince Pie "This day it came into my mind to write the history of my melancholy. On this I purpose to deliberate; I know not whether it may not too much disturb me/' From time to time there have been stupid or malicious people who have said that Johnson's marriage with a homely woman twenty years older than himself was not a love match.
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