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Yet he maintained that 'learning has decreased in England, because learning will not do so much for a man as formerly. Boswell's Hebrides, post, v. 80. Malone describes a call on Johnson in the winter of this year: 'I found him in his arm-chair by the fire-side, before which a few apples were laid. He was reading. I asked him what book he had got. He said the History of Birmingham.
To Boswell's record we are indebted also for our knowledge of those famous conversations, those wordy, knockdown battles, which made Johnson famous in his time and which still move us to wonder. Here is a specimen conversation, taken almost at random from a hundred such in Boswell's incomparable biography.
He stood frozen stiff for an instant, as his legal experience whispered to him all the possibilities hidden in those few sounds. The main thing was to keep his head! He went to the library and found Helen sitting alone in his own especial chair, peacefully reading Boswell's "Life of Johnson," as he was quick to notice as he passed behind her.
Gambler out of work's the lamest duck on the shore. Game of booming the Inn interests me that's all." Tom watched the lithe, slim figure in the distance for a minute before he went in to break the plan to the force of Boswell's. "He's no gambler," said he to himself, "or I couldn't trust him the way I do. He's queer, but I don't believe he has any other motive for this than wanting to help us."
He was impressed with the superiority of Johnson, and his knocking everybody down in argument. C.R. Leslie's Recollections, i. 146. See Boswell's Hebrides, Sept. 28. See ante, i. 433, and ii. 217, 358. Johnson and Mrs. Dingley, to whom he knew that whatever befell him was interesting, and no accounts could be too minute.
He was Goldsmith's 'great master, Garrick feared his criticism, and one cannot but recognize the power of Johnson's personality in the increasing intelligence and consistency of Garrick's interpretations, in the growing vigor and firmness of Goldsmith's stroke, in the charm, finality, and exuberant life of Sir Joshua's portraits; and above all in the skill, truth, brilliance, and lifelike spontaneity of Boswell's art.
Boswell before this supper, see ib. On Dr. Boswell's death, in 1780, Boswell wrote of him: 'He was a very good scholar, knew a great many things, had an elegant taste, and was very affectionate; but he had no conduct. His money was all gone. And do you know he was not confined to one woman.
I never was better pleased than when at fourteen I was master of Boswell's Life of Johnson, which I had long been wishing to read. If my master had given me, instead of Boswell, a Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, or a Geographical Class book, I should have been much less gratified by my success." The idea had been started of paying authors to write books in the languages of the country.
Dyer. Works, viii. 385. Had he been alive he was to have been the professor of mathematics in the imaginary college at St. Andrews. Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 25. Many years after his death, Johnson bought his portrait to hang in 'a little room that he was fitting up with prints. Croker's Boswell, p. 639.
See p. 186 of this volume. He refers to Johnson's letter of July 3, 1778, ante, p. 363. See ante, iii. 5, 178. 'By seeing London, said Johnson, 'I have seen as much of life as the world can show. Boswell's Hebrides, Oct. 11. 'London, wrote Hume in 1765, 'never pleased me much.
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