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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... death eclipsed the gaiety of nations'; Johnson said 'I could not have said more nor less' adding that he had after all said 'eclipsed, not extinguished'. 'BOSWELL. “But why nations?”... JOHNSON. “Why, Sir, some exaggeration must be ...
... death, the latter's daughter having married a nobleman and it being 'not fit that a peer should continue the business'. Within eleven years, old Mr Thrale paid off the loan, 'acquired a large fortune, and lived to be Member of ...
... death in 1795, the third (1799), fourth (1804), fifth (1807), and sixth (1811) editions were published under the editorship of Edmond Malone who added many new letters and notes, and the present text follows that of Malone's last ...
... death of Queen Anne leaves him unprepared and opens the way to the accession of the Hanoverian George I. Bolingbroke is dismissed, Marlborough is reinstated. DATE: 1715 LITERARY CONTEXT: Pope's translation of the Iliad (Vol. I) ...
... Death of Addison. HISTORICAL EVENTS: South Sea Crisis (Bubble) ends a period of speculation overseas. Many high-ranking government officials are implicated, losing vast amounts of money. DATE: 1721 LITERARY CONTEXT: Birth of Smollett ...