Samuel Johnson's biographer

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I could not have made it, had I not believed that it would be the means of drawing new readers to Boswell, and eventually of finding for them in the complete work what many have already found-- days and years of growing enlightenment and happy companionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life.

Some think that Boswell, in his Life of Johnson, did not sufficiently realize his duty of self-effacement.

But the essential Boswell, the skilful and devoted artist, is almost unrecognized.

First, Boswell had the industry and the devotion to his task of an artist.

Though Garrick was more successful in his Johnsonian recitation of poetry, Boswell won in reproducing his familiar conversation.

With only these Boswell might have been merely a tireless transcriber.

Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St.

It is the unseen hand of the artist Boswell that has wrought them inseparably into this reciprocal effect.

The single scenes and pictures which Boswell has given us will all of them bear close scrutiny for their precision, their economy of means, their lifelikeness, their artistic effect.

While it surely derives more of its excellence than is commonly remarked from the art of Boswell, its greatness after all is ultimately that of its subject.

He was a great favorite with children, and knew how to meet them, from little four-months-old Veronica Boswell to his godchild Jane Langton.

But the most important of his friendships developed between him and such men of genius as Boswell, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Edmund Burke.

Thus, through his friendship with Boswell, Johnson will realize his wish, still to be teaching as the years increase.

I will do you, Boswell, the justice to say, that you are the most UNSCOTTIFIED of your countrymen.

Sir, I lately took my friend Boswell and shewed him genuine civilised life in an English provincial town.