James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]
… other. 1 . Thomas Babington Macaulay, ‘Croker’s Edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson’, in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (Phildelphia: Carey and Hart, 1843), 4 vols, II, p. 9-51, p. 26. A second aspect of Boswellian sociability was … are sharped, the grindstone is always well moistened’ ( Boswell in Extremes 106). Out of his seventy Hypochondriack essays, which were published between 1777 and 1783 in the London Magazine , Boswell devoted four to ‘Drinking’, which is … actresses and prostitutes alike. What Boswell means by ‘true social intercourse’, in the quotation from his ‘Drinking’ essay, can be gained from the early pages of his London Journal , where he considers the kind of figure he hopes to cut …
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