Johnsonian Miscellanies Vol 1 Of 2 Classic Reprint

Author : Aleyn Lyell Reade
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ISBN 13 : 9781331902881
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Johnsonian Gleanings, Vol. 8 written by Aleyn Lyell Reade and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Johnsonian Gleanings, Vol. 8: A Miscellany When I wrote the Preface to Part VII. I was in doubt whether in Part VIII. I should take up the story of Johnsons Hfe after his return to London in 1740, or whether it would be necessary to devote another Part to various fresh matter bearing upon his early life that has cropped up during the progress of the work. I have found this latter course necessary. And recently, after reviewing all aspects of the question, I have decided to alter my scheme of progress. I find that one Part is not sufficient to include all the accumulated matter, and another similar one (Ix.) will be required. Moreover, I feel strongly that it is my duty to condense the whole of my material into a straight narrative of Johnson's life down to 1740, so that it will be available in that form for future biographers. I feel that no one else could do the job as thoroughly as myself, even in the unlikely event of his being so minded. Therefore, I am going to conclude this series (in Part X.) with such a narrative, as detailed as I can make it but stripped of all the usual apparatus of scholarship, so that the main results of my researches will be accessible in a way they could not be without such a key. Then, to round off my work for this period, I shall construct and print a complete index to the whole ten Parts, as well as to the Johnsonian portion of the parent work. The Reades of Blackwood Hill and Dr. Johnson's Ancestry, making it much fuller than the separate indexes, so as to render every detail in this big collection immediately and easily accessible to the enquirer. That finished, I can proceed to deal with Johnson's life onwards from the time of his final settlement in London in 1740, by the same methods of research. 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.