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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... Language and Logos in Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1981; Felicity Nussbaum, The Autobiographical Subject, 1989; Claude Rawson, Order from Confusion Sprung, 1985, 1992; Claude Rawson, Satire and Sentiment, 1660–1830, 1993; Bruce Redford ...
... language, would probably have produced something sublime upon the gunpowder plot. To apologise for his neglect, he gave in a short copy of verses, intitled Somnium, containing a common thought; “that the Muse had come to him in his ...
... language of translation being adapted to the thoughts of another person, insensibly follows their cast, and as it were runs into a mould that is ready prepared. Thus, for instance, taking the first sentence that occurs at the opening of ...
... LANGUAGE, was announced to the world, by the publication of its Plan or PROSPECTUS. How long this immense undertaking had been the object of his contemplation, I do not know. I once asked him by what means he had attained to that ...
... language of it is unexceptionably excellent; it being altogether free from that inflation of style, and those uncommon but apt and energetick words, which in some of his writings have been censured, with more petulance than justice; and ...