Dear Genevieve, I am afraid I have some bad news, we are going to have to cancel the lectures next week - the lady has just rung up and has done something...
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Sep 17, 2004 9:25 am
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Hi all, Here's an idle speculation for you as we approach the anniversary of his birth... I dreamt I was at a lecture on something which Johnson had done (in...
... My first choice would be Rambler #134, the essay on procrastination. I thought about putting it on my own web site, but I never got around to it. ;<) ...
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:43:01 -0700, Arthur Chandler <arthurc@...> ... I actually hadn't thought about him including his -own- stuff... But you needn't...
Johnson's prose, or an anthology of prose edited by Johnson?, -- Etc, Fr M J "Mike" Logsdon North American Old Roman Catholic Church (Utrecht Succession) ...
I really meant an anthology selected by Johnson of the best prose -- perhaps he might inlcude some of his own, but I was thinking more about what he would...
Definitely not Fielding! I'd imagine there would be Hooker, Addison, Robert South's sermons, Tillotson, Sir Thomas Browne, some Burke, Locke, Clarendon, maybe...
Hi, One of our group members has alerted me to a survey Yahoo! is hosting regarding its discussion groups service. The email I was forwarded didn't have any...
I was thinking that a prime candidate for Johnson would have been Defoe's _Journal of a Plague Year_. It has all the verissimilitude which he praised in...
Hi all, Your efforts to search for specific Johnson text have now been made much easier: the search engine at my web site now spiders both my web site and the...
I was mulling over this passage from the Idler, in which Dr. Johnson is speaking of the nature of painting: *The action must be circumstantial and distinct....
The "knowledge is of two kinds" quotation comes from a discussion where Johnson has ignored a host's paintings in order to peruse his library, if that helps......
This lecture is taking place at the Georgian Group in Fitzroy Square on November 3rd - I wondered if it might be of interest to you. Yours, Natasha McEnroe ...
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Oct 21, 2004 3:13 pm
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Dear Johnsonites, I was unable to help with this query from Ralph Keyes, who's getting a copy of this message (and please do include him -- ...
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Oct 26, 2004 6:08 pm
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Nor is there further information in either the McGraw-Hill edition of Boswell's journals for April 30 1773, nor in the Redford edition of the 2nd volume of the...
Arthur Chandler writes: If you type in "fine, strike it out" into Google, you get a slew of references. Those that identify it place it in Boswell: ...
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Oct 26, 2004 6:41 pm
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:38:52 -0700, Arthur Chandler <arthurc@...> ... No question about it being in Boswell (it's in the April 1773 entries) I think the...
It sounds to me as if Johnson is recalling something he's read rather than speaking from his own personal experience of being at Oxford. There are several...
I'm sending this out a couple days in advance on the calendar, in case you've registered a work email address... So far as I know, Johnson never traipsed...
I'm not sure that Johnson would have been happy with Halloween. I for one am sorry to see how it has come to supplant Guy Fawkes. Regards, Alexander...
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Oct 29, 2004 8:23 am
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As we all know Johnson received a pension of 300 pounds in 1762. In re-reading Boswell for the Defense it was stated in an entry on March 19, 1772 that Paoli...
... There is that suggestion, but a couple points are worth remembering. On the side of the Crown, I'm sure there were political liabilities associated with...
King's College English Department and King's College Library Are happy to announce a FREE LECTURE 'A Granddame's Garrulity: Hester Lynch Piozzi in Late Life' ...
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Nov 10, 2004 4:30 pm
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When Boswell is describing Johnson's work on the Dictionary, he refers to Johnson "tugging at his oar". I had an idea that this was a Bible reference of some...
