Citations:arbor vitae

English citations of arbor vitae

(Can we date this quote?), quoted in 2009 by David Nokes in Samuel Johnson: A Life, page 247:
The London Evening-Post published a fantasy in which Johnson’s ‘amiable consort’ became pregnant, ‘the old lady’s bulk’ not arising from ‘the Stamina of his arbor vitae’ but from a surfeit of cabbages sent to her […]