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In my original perplexity about finding a model for my Zenelophon, I had bethought me of Sinfi Lovell, who, with a friend of hers named Rhona Boswell, sat to Wilderspin, to your cousin, and others. I had made inquiries about Sinfi, but had been told that she was not now to be had, as she had abandoned London altogether, and was settled in Wales.
For this and the other translations to which no signature is affixed, I am indebted to the friend whose observations are mentioned in the notes, pp. 78 and 399. BOSWELL. Sir Walter Scott says, 'probably Dr. Hugh Blair. I have little doubt that it was Malone. 'One of the best criticks of our age, Boswell calls this friend in the other two passages.
Burney, Sir William Hamilton, and Dr. Warren, it will be acknowledged that we might establish a second university of high reputation. BOSWELL. Mr. Here, unluckily, the windows had no pullies; and Dr. Johnson, who was constantly eager for fresh air, had much struggling to get one of them kept open.
And on the far right of the English line, Polson Jervase is standing at his horse's head, cheering with the rest, when on a sudden he discerns a familiar figure: General Boswell is at the Chiefs side and the two are in familiar converse. The young soldier's first battle not yet begun, and Irene's father going by so near and yet so unmindful of him as a mere unit among the waiting thousands.
Johnson wrote to Boswell in 1775: 'Reynolds has taken too much to strong liquor, and seems to delight in his new character. Ante, ii. 292. See ante, p. 170, note 2. At the Castle of the Bishop of Munster 'there was, writes Temple, 'nothing remarkable but the most Episcopal way of drinking that could be invented.
University College has witnessed this . BOSWELL. 'Why then, Sir, did you leave it off? JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, because it is so much better for a man to be sure that he is never to be intoxicated, never to lose the power over himself . I shall not begin to drink wine again, till I grow old, and want it. BOSWELL. 'I think, Sir, you once said to me, that not to drink wine was a great deduction from life. JOHNSON. 'It is a diminution of pleasure, to be sure; but I do not say a diminution of happiness.
Sir, the man who has vigour, may walk to the east, just as well as to the west, if he happens to turn his head that way . BOSWELL. 'But, Sir, 'tis like walking up and down a hill; one man will naturally do the one better than the other. A hare will run up a hill best, from her fore-legs being short; a dog down. JOHNSON. 'Nay, Sir; that is from mechanical powers.
'Your obliged and faithful humble servant, 'JAMES BOSWELL. ADVERTISEMENT, written by Dr. Johnson, and inserted by his desire in the Edinburgh newspapers: Referred to in the foregoing letter . He means in a future edition to correct his errour , and wishes to be told of more, if more have been discovered. Dr. Johnson's letter was as follows: 'Mr.
It was felt at once, and has been increasingly felt ever since, that Boswell is so direct and personal that beside him all other biographers seem impersonal and vague, that he is so intimate that he makes all others appear cold and distant, so lifelike that they seem shadowy, so true that they seem false.
Certainly, except as a biographer, Boswell was not a man of any very remarkable abilities. But, in answer to such an insult as Macaulay's, Boswell's defenders may safely appeal to the book itself, and to everybody who has read it with any care.
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