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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... 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, and Goldsmith's ...
... particular episode, or Boswell's bizarre predilection elsewhere, for example, for witnessing public hangings. I mean a capacity or predilection for entranced eyewitnessing quite apart from any sexual or necrological interests, which has ...
... particular. We read of Thrale's father working 'at six shillings a week in the great brewery', which he was helped to buy after the owner's death, the latter's daughter having married a nobleman and it being 'not fit that a peer should ...
... particular personal case. We witness for a second time Boswell's readiness to give the full argument against himself, but this time he is really setting it up for deflation, as patently and inexorably as those mounting rhetorical ...
... particular conversations. And notice one further thing. What Johnson actually said was 'if there were no trade, many who are poor would always remain poor.' He does not praise trade for removing distinctions of rank, only for reducing ...