Boswelliana: The
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共 28 段- This decadence in the art and practice of the communication
- “Your young gentleman[9] called at my house on Thursday noon
- Dr. Johnson regarded Boswell as an adventurer, who had come
- “You know a gentleman, who when first he set his foot in the
- Boswell proceeds to advise his friend to marry a suitable wi
- “What say you to my marrying? I intend, next autumn, to visi
- On the 6th September a national jubilee at Stratford-on-Avon
- After an absence of eighty-three days the travellers returne
- Boswell named his infant son Alexander, after his father. Th
- The reconciliation is thus described:—
- On the opening of Parliament in November, 1783, Mr. Fox intr
- “_Johnson_: ‘Sir, he cannot mean me so irreparable an injury
- “The state of my affairs is very disagreeable; but be not af
- “When my book is launched I shall, if I am alone and in tole
- “I James Boswell Esquire of Auchinleck having already settle
- Alexander Boswell, writer to the Signet, second son of Rober
- “A German baron, newly arrived at Paris in a suit trimmed wi
- “Boswell said that Mademoiselle de Maasdain, at the Hague, w
- “One day when a company of us were dining at Mr. Foote’s, in
- “Somebody observed that Lord Elibank[229] was constantly rea
- “Colman[282] had a house opposite to a timber yard. The pros
- “Montgomerie,[328] of Skermorly, was Provost of Glasgow. A v
- “She disapproved of my inviting Mr. M——sh, a man of ability
- Robertson, Baldwin, advocate, 217
- [110] John Johnston, of Grange, was one of Boswell’s early a
- [175] Of John, fourth Earl of Loudoun, Boswell in his “Scott
- [245] Second son of the Rev. Robert Wallace, D.D., George Wa
- [347] Probably a brother of John Alexander, the celebrated p