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like the highlands?
“Who can like the Highlands?” answered Dr. Johnson.And so the famous trip through the Scottish Highlands drew to a close, to be immortalized in James Boswell’s journal. It was a snapshot in time, of the wild ways of the Hebrides … Continue reading
highlands: linen in the seraglio
James Boswell and Dr. Samuel Johnson’s tour to the Scottish Highlands in 1773…. Boswell, too, was more concerned with the study of human character. Samuel Johnson was a more fascinating subject than any cliff or stream or ruined castle- the … Continue reading
meeting of the minds….
“Who can like the Highlands?” asked Dr. Johnson after James Boswell had dragged him from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the Lowlands. Boswell could,and soon set about immortalizing the tour… At Auchinleck, Dr. Johnson, a vehement Tory, … Continue reading
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going home: blades of grass
James Boswell induced Samuel Johnson in 1773, who pretended that he detested Scotsmen and despised their barren country, to venture across the Scottish border and, not only spend some days in Edinburgh, but penetrate the barbaric Highlands and undertake a … Continue reading
boswell and johnson: mull-ing the coll of the wild
” that we might there contemplate a system of life almost totally different from what we have been accustomed to see,” and “find simplicity and wildness…” But it needed a great deal of quiet diplomacy to overcome Johnson’s natural sloth. … Continue reading
Johnson and Boswell: doctor their eyes in a tempest
The immortal tour of the Scottish Highlands by James Boswell and Dr. Samuel Johnson in 1773. “Who can like the Highlands?” asked Dr. Johnson after Boswell had dragged him from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the Lowlands. … Continue reading
boswell and johnson: road show
“Who can like the Highlands?” asked Dr. Samuel Johnson in 1773. James Boswell. The James Boswell had persuaded Johnson to embark on this tour and proceeded to drag him from Edinburgh to Inverness to Sky and back to the Lowlands. … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles H. Bennett, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone Shakespearian scholar, Fora Macdonald jacobite heroine, Frederick A. Pottle, George Macaulay Trevelyan, James Boswell, Lou Reed, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Collings, Thomas Rowlandson
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at the top of dun caan
At the top of Dun Caan, a mountain on the Isle of Raasay, James Boswell and two Highlanders danced a reel after washing down their picnic with brandy and punch. In the satirical version below, the fat and sottish Boswell … Continue reading
well of the dead
By the Well of the Dead at Culloden Moor, where the British destroyed a Highland army in 1746, a head stone marks a clan chief’s grave. James Boswell “several times burst into tears” when a Culloden veteran recounted to them … Continue reading
scottify yourself
Thomas Rowlandson’s engraving, below, records the scene at the Firth of Forth where James Boswell forced a piece of dried fish an Johnson as a means, he said, of “scottifying his palate…With difficulty I prevailed with him to let a … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles H. Bennett, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone Shakespearian scholar, Frederick A. Pottle, James Boswell, John Knox, John Knox Scotland, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Collings, Thomas Rowlandson
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