James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]
… as he also did all his life; or, as he did returning to Edinburgh from Auchinleck in March 1777 with an old friend, Richard Montgomery, ‘at some low ale-house’, where ‘I drank outrageously’ and ‘arrived at Edinburgh very drunk’. 2 … He will model himself, he writes, on ‘Mr Addison’s character in sentiment, mixed with a little of the gaiety of Sir Richard Steele ’, to which he will add ‘the manners’ of his friend the Edinburgh actor ‘Mr Digges’ ( London Journal 89). A …
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