Evidence: | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the next week: that his respect for my little observations should keep his work in suspense makes one of the evils of my journey. It is in our language, I think, a new mode of history which tells all that is wanted, and, I suppose, all that is known, without laboured splendour of language, or affected subtilty of conjecture. The exactness of his dates raises my wonder. He seems to have the closeness of Renault without his constraint.
Mrs. Thrale was so entertained with your [italics] Journal [end italics] that she almost read herself blind. She has a great regard for you'. |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 27 Aug 1775 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Hester Lynch Thrale |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 27 Jan 1741 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Wales |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | James Boswell |
Title: | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
Genre: | Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) lent by Boswell |
Record ID: | 21558 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Boswell | |
Editor: | R.W. Chapman | |
Title: | Life of Johnson | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 640 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Boswell, R.W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 640, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21558, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Original date of publication 1791. |
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