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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... allow us now to hear him.” JOHNSON. (sternly,) “Sir, I was not interrupting the gentleman. I was only giving him a signal of my attention. Sir, you are impertinent.” Goldsmith made no reply, but continued in the company for some time ...
... allowed to suggest, that the nature of the work, in other respects, as it consists of innumerable detached particulars ... allow me to read to him almost the whole of my manuscript, and make such remarks as were greatly for the advantage ...
... allow him, that he may either part with it to you, or find out, (which I do not expect,) some other way more to his satisfaction. “I have only to add, that as I am sensible I have transcribed it very coarsely, which, after having ...
... allow the printer to “alter any stroke of satire which he might dislike.” That any such alteration was made, we do not know. If we did, we could not but feel an indignant regret; but how painful is it to see that a writer of such ...
... allow, that the flame of patriotism and zeal for popular resistance with which it is fraught, had no just cause. There was, in truth, no “oppression;” the “nation” was not “cheated.” Sir Robert Walpole was a wise and a benevolent ...