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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... True, (answered the Earl, with a smile,) but he would have been a dancing bear.”' It is, incidentally, remarkable how frequently such tu quoques occur in the network of mythology and anecdote about Augustan writers, usually without the ...
... true value.' Readers don't, you might say, spontaneously think of Johnson as an exponent of drawing-room urbanity, the Bear adopting the style of the dancing master. But for all the personal resentment Johnson felt for Chesterfield over ...
... true and fair delineation, be vindicated both from the injurious misrepresentations of this authour, and from the slighter aspersions of a lady who once lived in great intimacy with him. There is, in the British Museum, a letter from ...
... true; and from a respectable gentleman109 connected with the lady's family, I have received such information and remarks, as joined to my own inquiries, will, I think, render it at least somewhat doubtful, especially when we consider ...
... True to no King, to no religion true: No fair forgets the ruin he has done; No child laments the tyrant of his son; No tory pities, thinking what he was; No whig compassions, for he left the cause; The brave regret not, for he was not ...