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Life of Samuel Johnson
Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell
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The most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which extraordinary man paints the picture of a dozen more. At the centre of a brilliant circle which included Burke, Reynolds, Garrick, Fanny Burney and even George III, Boswell captures the powerful, troubled and witty figure of Samuel Johnson, who towers above them all. Yet this is also an intimate picture of domestic life, which mingles the greatest talkers of a talkative age with the hero's humbler friends in a picture which is, before all things, humane. As a young man about London, James Boswell was obsessed by literature, and, on a fateful day in 1763, he attached himself with unswerving tenacity to the dominant literary figure of his age the splendidly rotund, articulate, and humane Dr Samuel Johnson. What followed was the most famous of friendships between writers and the bais for the remarkable documentation contained in Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson," the greatest and most compelling of all biographies. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)"
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Susanita
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Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for in #London there is all that life can afford. #JulyJourneys

Eggs Brilliant 👏🏻📚❤️ 3y
Susanita @Eggs Would you believe, I got this from Wimbledon coverage! 3y
Eggs I would believe!!! @Susanita 3y
MayJasper I used to live in the birth place of Samuel Johnson. 3y
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Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell
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Check out today's bookish Google Doodle.

JoeStalksBeck It looks amazing! 7y
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KafkaKitten
Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell
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My bookish friend and I had a Dr. Samuel Johnson sort of day today. We started at his house, and then the docent there recommended that we see the Temple Church and surrounding buildings, some of which have Johnson's name on them. Then we came upon this statue in the street!

LeahBergen What a wonderful day! 7y
KafkaKitten @LeahBergen Yes! Plus the Tate Britain and now the National Theatre!! How could we go wrong? 😍🇬🇧 7y
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GoneFishing
Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell

Everything about his character and manners was forcible and violent; there never was any moderation; many a day did he fast, many a year did he refrain from wine; but when he did eat, it was voraciously; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practise abstinence, but not temperance.

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GoneFishing
Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.