A Life of James BoswellYale University Press, 30. apr. 2002 - 613 strani This moving biography reassesses James Boswell's achievements and uncovers the breadth of his world. Peter Martin dispels the notion that Boswell's masterly Life of Johnson was an accidental work of genius, and shows that Boswell was a writer of the highest order and a complex, troubled, but ultimately appealing man. |
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18 April Account of Corsica Alexander April asked August began Biographer Boswell wrote Boswell's Burke Castle conversation Corsica Court Court of Session Dalrymple December Dempster dinner Dr Johnson Dundas Edinburgh edition Edmond Malone Eglinton English Erskine essays father February feeling felt Fettercairn friendship Garrick gloomy Grange GT(i GT(ii happy Hebrides Hester Thrale honour hope Hume humour hypochondria Ibid idea imagination Isham James Boswell Jamie January John journey July June Kames knew Lady Laird later letters literary live London Journal Lonsdale Lord Auchinleck Malone manuscript March Margaret married melancholy mind months morning never night November October Paoli poems political Pottle published replied Rousseau Samuel Johnson Scotland Scots Scottish September spirits stay talk Temple thought Thrale told took Tour Utrecht Veronica Voltaire wanted weeks wife Wilkes woman write young Zélide
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Stran 15 - He who has nothing external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights...