Boswell´s Life of Johnson, Including Boswell´s Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson´s Diary of a Journal Into North Wales, 1904 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Boswell´s Life of Johnson, Including Boswell´s Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson´s Diary of a Journal Into North Wales, 1904 What can you tell of countries so well known as those upon the continent of Europe, which you have visited?" Boswell: "But I can give an entertaining narrative, with many incidents, anecdotes, jeux d´ esprit, and remarks, so as to make very pleasant reading." Johnson: "Why, Sir, most modern travellers in Europe who have published their travels, have been laughed at: I would not have you added to the number. The world is now not contented to be merely entertained by a traveller´s narrative; they want to learn something. Now some of my friends asked me why I did not give some account of my travels in France. The reason is plain; intelligent readers had seen more of France than I had. You might have liked my travels in France, and The Club might have liked them; but, upon the whole, there would have been more ridicule than good produced by them." Boswell: "I cannot agree with you, Sir. People would like to read what you say of any thing. Suppose a face has been painted by fifty painters before; still we love to see it done by Sir Joshua." Johnson: "True, Sir, but Sir Joshua cannot paint a face when he has not time to look on it." Boswell: "Sir, a sketch of any sort by him is valuable. And, Sir, to talk to you in your own style (raising my voice, and shaking my head), you should have give us your travels in France. I am sure I am right, and there´s an end on´t." I said to him that it was certainly true, as my friend Dempster had observed in his letter to me upon the subject, that a great part of what was in his "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland," had been in his mind before he left London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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