Doctor Johnson His Friends And His Critics

Author : George Birkbeck Hill
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ISBN 13 : 9781331206545
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Dr. Johnson written by George Birkbeck Hill and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dr. Johnson: His Friends and His Critics Though I cannot say with Lord Macaulay that I was never better pleased than when at fourteen I was master of Boswell's 'Life of Johnson, ' yet I was still a schoolboy when I first read the book. When later on I entered the University of Oxford I was proud as a member of Pembroke College to boast of the great man who is the glory of that society. I little thought, however, in those days that the study of his life was to fill up much of the leisure time of not a few of my busiest years, and that, on my retirement from a laborious occupation, and my recovery from a tedious illness, I should attempt to describe Oxford as it was known to him. It might at first sight seem that he who should at the present day venture to write about Johnson would justly incur the same kind of criticism as that which Johnson himself passed on one of the writers of his time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.