L'histoire de la littérature anglaise pour les jeunes lecteurs . t il peint le portrait de lui-même et je thinkI aimerait avoir eu son amitié, d'avoir la main heldhis, et j'ai écouté les sons de sa douce, affec-tionate la voix. Sir Joshua a été l'un des hommes de bonne fête aux prospères. Les ducs et les duchesses cherché sa connaissance  ; mais il était toujours simple en lui-même, tout à fait gratuitement, fromaffectation et généreux et gentiment à tous ceux qu'hemet. Ses portraits sont venus jusqu'à nous comme s'il re-héroïnes et d'une romance en son temps. Beauti-ful, femmes-hommes à la noble, douce, embrevés-chil dren ; et, en tout, nous voir

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The story of English literature for young readers . t the portrait he painted of himself and I thinkI would like to have had his friendship, to have heldhis hand, and listened to the tones of his sweet, affec-tionate voice. Sir Joshua was one of the prosperous men of theday. Dukes and duchesses sought his acquaintance ;but he was always simple in himself, quite free fromaffectation, and generous and kindly to all whom hemet. His portraits have come down to us like he-roes and heroines of a romance in his time. Beauti-ful women, noble-looking men, sweet, dimpled chil-dren ; and, in all, we see a touch of that which madethe.people he lived among call him the sweet SirJoshua. And who are the guests at Sir Joshuas dinner ?There are Johnson and Boswell, of course, the for-mer holding forth on some subject of the hour. Nearby are lounging two handsome young men, foppish in For Young Readers. 309 dress, dandified in air, yet they are Johnsons de-voted admirers, Topham Beauclerk and Bennet Lang-ton. The devotion of these two young men to John-. :^t^$^ Sir Joshua Reynolds. son shows how gay and hght a side there must havebeen to the old bears nature. One night Beau and Lanky, as Johnsoncalled them, had been supping together at a tavern, and about three in the morning they started off for 3IO The Story of English Literature Johnsons rooms. They pounded at the door andJohnson appeared in his night-cap and armed with apoker. Beau and Lanky called out to him tojoin them. What! is that you, you dogs 1 cried Dr. John-son, Ill have a frisk with you ! And away he flew, dressed himself in an old suit of clothes, and, pres-ently, behold the three going down Covent Garden, where the fruit and flower venders were just appear-ing with their blooming cart-loads to sell at day-break. They stopped at a tavern and brewed abowl of punch; then took a boat to Billingsgatewhere the morning broke upon them in rich splendor.Langton deserted them to go off to a breakfast-party, but the great man and Be

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