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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... soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition. We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features of his mind; and it may be easily ...
... soon found could be of much service to him in his trade, by his knowledge of literature; and he even obtained the ... soon done, one Osborne, who was Mr. Warren's printer, was set to work with what was ready, and Johnson engaged to ...
... soon come up with me. When she did, I observed her to be in tears.” This, it must be allowed, was a singular beginning of connubial felicity; but there is no doubt that Johnson, though he thus shewed a manly firmness, proved a most ...
... soon diverted by his decided preference for the stage. This joint expedition of these two eminent men to the metropolis, was many years afterwards noticed in an allegorical poem on Shakespeare's Mulberry-tree, by Mr. Lovibond, the ...
... soon satisfied with it. And I think the Examen should be pushed forward with the utmost expedition. Thus, 'This day, &c. An Examen of Mr. Pope's Essay, &c., containing a succinct Account of the philosophy of Mr. Leibnitz on the System ...