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Boswelliana, the Commonplace Book of J. Boswell, With a Memoir and Annotations by C. Rogers
Boswelliana the Commonplace Book of J Boswell With a Memoir and Annotations by C Rogers Author:James Boswell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1876 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: with Johnson on their northern tour, Lord Auchinleck remarked to a friend, " There's nae hope for Jamie, man; Jamie's gane clean gyte. What do you think, man ? He's aff vi' the laud- louping scoundrel of a Corsican. And whase tail do ye think he has pinned himself to now, man ? a dominie, man, -- an auld dominie, that keepit a schule and ca'd it an academy." Boswell has denied the truth of a report which had gained credit, that on his representing the lexicographer to his father as a constella- twn of genius, he replied, " Ursa Major." Lord Auchinleck, he admits, did use the expression, but it was spoken aside to a brother judge as Dr. Johnson was standing in the Court of Session. After an absence of eighty-three days the travellers returned to Edinburgh. They were complimented and entertained by Lord Eliban k, Lady Colville, Lord Hailes, Principal Robertson, and others. Mrs. Boswell, though she did not oppose her husband taking part in the Hebridean journey, was not reconciled to it. On his return she remarked to him, " I have seen a bear led by a man, but I never before saw a man led by a bear." Boswell accepted the remark facetiously, and, in the belief he would enjoy it, repeated it to Dr. Johnson. As might have been expected, the lexicographer felt most keenly the allusion to his rough manners, and he was placed in circumstances in which retort was impossible. Kemoval was his only refuge, and he hastened his departure. He left Edinburgh in the stage-coach on the 22nd November -- just twelve days after his return to the city. But he did not forget Mrs. Boswell's censure. For several years he all...« less