...irreparable damage to the auricular organs, which never could perform their functions since I knew him ; and it was owing to that horrible disorder, too, that...recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood V The christening of his brother he remembered with all its circumstances, and said, his mother taught...

...description of the scene, as it remained upon his fancy. Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, "He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of...recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood."* This touch, however, was without any effect.1 I ventured to say to him, in allusion to the political...

...description of the scene, as it remained upon his fancy. Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne,—'He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of solemn...recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood.' 3 This touch, how ever, was without any effect. I ventured to say to him, in allusion to the political...

...became one of the great lights of English literature, used to speak of the incident, saying he had " a confused but somehow a sort of solemn recollection...of a lady in diamonds and a long black hood." The royal hands whose touch was supposed to cure, were often sadly in need of healing, for Her Majesty...

...in Lichfield, took the child to London, where he was touched by Queen Anne. He ever after retained "a confused, but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood." Unfortunately, as in many other cases, the royal touch was of no medicinal value. His vision remained...

...recall his childish memory of this interview with royalty. He used to tell his friends that he had a confused but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of " a lady in diamonds and a long black hood." This one association of Johnson with Queen Anne and the picture which it calls up to the mind may be...

...description of the scene, as it remained upon his fancy. Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, ' gainst it, and indeed reason and the interests of...against it ; for were it to be perpetual, no book, V This touch, however, was without any effect. I ventured to say to him, in allusion to the political...

...instances of a very old superstition, to be "touched" for the King's Evil, or scrofula; and he had " a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds and a long black hood," that is, of Queen Anne, whose touch unfortunately failed to effect a cure. In the dame school he was...

...unlikely to promote the disease. Dr. Johnson was touched as a child for scrofula by Queen Anne, of whom ' he had,' he said, ' a confused but somehow a sort...recollection of a lady in diamonds and a long black hood.' And Barrington tells of meeting another of this Queen's child-patients, who, when asked whether he...

...by the Queen. When asked in later years if he could remember the latter, he used to say that he had a " confused, but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds and a long black hood." ' George I, the successor of Queen Anne, regarded the Royal Touch as a purely superstitious method...