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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... leave early that particular day, so that he originally picked up his hat not, as Boswell thought, out of pique but because he needed to be at Covent Garden. If that is so, it makes Boswell's account sound even more accurate in spirit ...
... leave it alone. For four ensuing paragraphs, he takes it up, turns it over, pushes it this way and that, like a hyperactive puppy on a benzedrine diet. The fuss, the condescension, the definitions and redefinitions, the rubbing in and ...
Introduction by Claude Rawson James Boswell. leave to catch you in the fact: it was not an old woman, but an old man, whom I mentioned as having told me this'), then explains that he did all this and why: 'I presumed to take an ...
... leave to express my warmest thanks to those who have been pleased to favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my Work. But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. MALONE, who was so good as to ...
... leave of him, brought him, in the simplicity of her kindness, a present of gingerbread, and said he was the best scholar she ever had. He delighted in mentioning this early compliment: adding, with smile, that “this was as high a proof ...