The Life of Samuel Johnson: Introduction by Claude RawsonKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 24 лист. 2015 р. - 1344 стор. 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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... pleasure' was tame. 'JOHNSON. “Nay, Sir, harmless pleasure is the highest praise.”' Reasons given. End of conversation. But end of paragraph? No. 'This was, perhaps, as ingenious a defence as could be made; still, however, [have you ...
... pleasure does there arise to a benevolent mind. To those who are weak enough to think this a degrading task, and the time and labour which have been devoted to it misemployed, I shall content myself with opposing the authority of the ...
... pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned. But I have heard him say, what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of that College, the Reverend William Adams, D.D., who was ...
... pleasure of examining it with Mr. Edmund Burke, who confirmed me in this opinion, by his superiour critical sagacity, and was, I remember, much delighted with the following specimen: “The Portuguese traveller, contrary to the general ...
... pleasure so soon; for a pleasure I shall always think it, to converse in any manner with an ingenuous and candid man; but having the inclosed poem in my hands to dispose of for the benefit of the authour, (of whose abilities I shall say ...