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Survey of London
… 1894, p. 57; Margaret Barton, Garrick, 1948, p. 66; D.N.B. Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, 1887, vol. III, p. …
Old and New London
… Charles Dilly, the booksellers. Here, in the year 1773, Boswell and Johnson dined with the Dillys, Goldsmith, … Toplady. The conversation was of excellent quality, and Boswell devotes many pages to it. They discussed the … proof of my attention. Sir, you are impertinent." Johnson, Boswell, and Langton presently adjourned to the club, where …
Old and New London
… whilst taking his pleasure in a boat on the Thames; and Boswell, in his "Life of Johnson," records the fact that once …
Old and New London
… lives of literary men. It is well known to every reader of Boswell that it was in this street that Dr. Johnson, on his …
Old and New London
… up by Dr. Johnson himself, will be found at length in Boswell's "Life;" and our readers may be amused to learn that … the portly form of Dr. Johnson, in company with his friend Boswell, might often be seen; and during the Westminster …
Old and New London
… and friend of Johnson, of whom it is recorded by Boswell that as he stood one day here gazing on the river …
Old and New London
… time made him independent of the booksellers. In 1763 Boswell made his acquaintance and visited Ursa Major in his den. "It must be confessed," says Boswell, "that his apartments, furniture, and morning dress … that occasionally weighed upon that great intellect. Boswell had chambers, not far from the god of his idolatry, …
Old and New London
… Johnson, in one conversation with that excellent listener, Boswell, talked much of the wonderful extent and variety of … life as only few could imagine. "He in particular," says Boswell, "recommended us to 'explore' Wapping, which we …
Survey of London
… Record, New York, vol. xxxiii, 1913, pp. 35968. Eleanore Boswell, The Restoration Court Stage 16601702, 1932, pp. … Part 1, 16601700, ed. William Van Lennep, 1965, p. 234. Boswell, op. cit., p. 208. Leslie Hotson, The Commonwealth …
Old and New London
… who was a friend of Johnson, Reynolds, Burke, and others. Boswell thus relates the manner in which an acquaintance … when the latter was Premier, and honourably mentioned by Boswell in his "Life of Johnson." Close to the corner of …