The Life of Samuel Johnson: Introduction by Claude RawsonKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. nov. 24. - 1344 oldal One of the greatest and most compelling of all biographies in literature had its beginnings on a fateful day in London in 1763, when young James Boswell determinedly attached himself to the dominant literary figure of his age—the splendidly humane, devastatingly witty, often troubled Dr. Samuel Johnson. What followed was one of the most famous of literary friendships, one that Boswell carefully documented over the years and eventually made the basis of an extraordinarily vivid group portrait. |
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... acquaintance' wrote Boswell in his Journal. In August Boswell leaves for Utrecht to study law, where he becomes friends with Belle de Zuylen. Death of his son, Charles. LITERARY CONTEXT: Churchill: Prophesy of Famine. Smart: Song to ...
... acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance. They rarely afford any other ... acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features of his mind; and ...
... acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could, at least, tell where to find ... acquainted. Mr. Meynell's eldest daughter.
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