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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... desire of being conspicuous in company, [which] was the occasion of his sometimes appearing to such disadvantage as one should hardly have supposed possible in a man of his genius', his jealousy 'of the extraordinary attention which was ...
... desire to obtain his regard, that three of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him to school. One in the middle stooped, while he sat upon his back, and one on ...
... desire you to propose the question to which you wish for an answer. I am, Sir, “Your humble servant, “SAM. JOHNSON.” “TO MR. CAVE. [No date.] “SIR, “I AM pretty much of your opinion, that the Commentary cannot be prosecuted with any ...
... desire in that respect, it would be a great satisfaction, as well as an honour to our work, to have the favour of the genuine speech. It is a method that several have been pleased to take, as I could show, but I think myself under a ...
... desire only, as I send it in, two guineas for a sheet of copy; the rest you may pay me when it may be more convenient; and even by this sheet payment I shall, for some time, be very expensive. “The Life of Savage I am ready to go upon ...