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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... kind of Boswellian crafting, which derives less from what might be thought of as writerly accomplishment than from a successful staging of the situation itself: his well-known contriving of meetings, his planting of a deliberate ...
... kind, as the hero of a novel or play; and social, in the many scenes, in both the journals and the Life of Johnson, which he engineered, stimulated or viewed with a quite peculiar combination of witness and participant. Consider an ...
... kind of curtness or conclusion you are likely to find) will usually occur only when two conditions are met: 1) that the conversation has run out of words, and 2) Boswell has run out of afterthoughts. It may appear to resemble those ...
... kind of honesty that he should not only give the spirit of Johnson's sympathetic account as fairly as possible, but also that in the first instance he should himself enter into the spirit of the thing in his own name. Here Boswell ...
... kind, More false, more cruel, than the seas or wind. “Toil on, dull croud, in extacies he cries, For wealth or title, perishable prize; While I those transitory blessings scorn, Secure of praise from ages yet unborn.” This thought once ...