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<p>[QUOTE="Bart9349, post: 3596505, member: 5682"]I've been enjoying the culture and social life of 18th century Britain for the last several years.</p><p><br /></p><p>On that theme, I've been savoring this book:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]961914[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This book focuses on the life of Samuel Johnson, a Tory, literary critic, and writer best known for his "A Dictionary on the English Language," published in 1755. Although not the first English dictionary, his was the most extensive until the Oxford English Dictionary 150 years later.</p><p><br /></p><p>This book examines Johnson's relationship with the always randy Scotsman James Boswell. Boswell dedicated much of his life to following Johnson and writing one of the great biographies of the English language, "Life of Samuel Johnson," published in 1792.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my favorite anecdotes from the English language by James Boswell:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The book centers on The Club, a London social and dining club whose members included Johnson and Boswell as well as many of the other leading luminaries of 18th century London: Edward Gibbon, Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Sheridan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a scene of Samuel Johnson lecturing to the ever attentive James Boswell, presumably at The Club:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]961921[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's possibly some of the change used to pay for a meal at The Club:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]961922[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]961923[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]961924[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]961925[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Good times,</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>g.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bart9349, post: 3596505, member: 5682"]I've been enjoying the culture and social life of 18th century Britain for the last several years. On that theme, I've been savoring this book: [ATTACH=full]961914[/ATTACH] This book focuses on the life of Samuel Johnson, a Tory, literary critic, and writer best known for his "A Dictionary on the English Language," published in 1755. Although not the first English dictionary, his was the most extensive until the Oxford English Dictionary 150 years later. This book examines Johnson's relationship with the always randy Scotsman James Boswell. Boswell dedicated much of his life to following Johnson and writing one of the great biographies of the English language, "Life of Samuel Johnson," published in 1792. One of my favorite anecdotes from the English language by James Boswell: The book centers on The Club, a London social and dining club whose members included Johnson and Boswell as well as many of the other leading luminaries of 18th century London: Edward Gibbon, Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Sheridan. Below is a scene of Samuel Johnson lecturing to the ever attentive James Boswell, presumably at The Club: [ATTACH=full]961921[/ATTACH] Here's possibly some of the change used to pay for a meal at The Club: [ATTACH=full]961922[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]961923[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]961924[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]961925[/ATTACH] Good times, g.[/QUOTE]
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