...Shandy did not last.' ' ' She (Miss Monckton) insisted that some of Sterne's writingswere verypathetic. Johnson bluntly denied it. " I am sure," said she,...Johnson, smiling, and rolling himself about, " that is, dearest, because you are a dunce," ' 8 His opinion of the Old Ballads, in which Bishop Percy threw...

...Miss Monckton, afterwards Countess of Cork, was insisting that there were pathetic passages in Sterne, Johnson bluntly denied it. " I am sure," said she, " they have affected me." " Why, that," replied the Doctor, smiling, and rolling himself about, " is because, dearest, you're a dunce."...

...— (late Countess of Cork) [she died in 1840, upwards of 90 years of age]— who used to have the finest bit of blue at the house of her mother, Lady Galway." In answer to, " Was it always applied to ladies exclusively as at present] or is the term ever predicated...