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All Gard's visits to London have included short literary pilgrimages, and on this occasion he paid his respects to the Great Cham of Gough Square. "One night when Beauclerk and Langton had supped at a tavern in London, and sat till about three in the morning, it came into their heads to go and knock up Johnson, and see if they could prevail on him to join them in a ramble. They rapped violently at the door of his chambers in the Temple, till at last he appeared in his shirt