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Updated: May 28, 2025
The character-sketch of Johnson, given at the opening of the book is full of fine shading and touches; but the traveller who now follows them on the journey will hardly, in comparison with his own tourist attire, recognise what in 1773 was thought fit and convenient costume.
I mean merely that Hawthorne may have found in this character-sketch Bunyan's most elaborate one, for the typical subject of which he shows an evident fondness and leniency something peculiarly fascinating, which may not have been without its shaping influence for him.
Of these latter, the Coffee-House Politician; or, The Justice caught in his own Trap, 1730, succeeded the Author's Farce. The leading idea, that of a tradesman who neglects his shop for "foreign affairs," appears to be derived from Addison's excellent character-sketch in the Tatler of the "Political Upholsterer."
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