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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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local hospitality: johnson & boswell on their rounds
The late summer of 1773 and James Boswell had succeeded in dragging Dr. Samuel Johnson, the Dr. Johnson, from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the Lowlands. Boswell could, and soon set about immortalizing the tour… …Johnson and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonnie Prince Charles, Charles H. Bennett, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone Shakespearian scholar, Frederick A. Pottle, James Boswell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Prince Charles Revolt 1745, Samuel Collings, Scottish Revolt 1745, Thomas Rowlandson
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dr. johnson and iona: fruitful but ignorant bliss
On the tour of the Scottish Highlands with James Boswell in 1773 ,Johnson nearly sixty-four, nearly deaf, corpulent, and short sighted, penetrated the barbaric Highlands and undertook a tour around the Hebrides. … Saint Martin’s Cross, erected before the eleventh … Continue reading
boswell and johnson: highlands hopping
“Who can like the Highlands?” asked Dr. Samuel 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… …he had been “quite hurt,” … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles H. Bennett, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone Shakespearian scholar, Frederick A. Pottle, George Macaulay Trevelyan, James Boswell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Collings, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Rowlandson
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highlander: tourists in the wild
1773. James Boswell had dragged Samuel Johnson from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the Lowlands. Boswell could, and soon set about immortalizing the tour… …Among the Western Islands, however, some traces of the feudal system lingered, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Lenman, Charles H. Bennett, David Morier paintings, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone Shakespearian scholar, Frederick A. Pottle, Jacobite Uprising Scotland 1745, James Boswell, John Pettie paintings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Collings, Sir Alexander Macdonald, Thomas Rowlandson
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castle the castle
The immortal tour of James Boswell and Dr Samuel Johnson into the Highlands of Scotland in 1773. An incongruous team they were… At his first sight of Dunvegan Castle Boswell remarked with satisfaction, “This is feudal indeed.” What pleased Johnson, … Continue reading
road work: on the cusp of civilization
James Boswell had dragged Dr. Samuel Johnson from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the Lowlands. Boswell could, and soon set about immortalizing the tour. “Who can like the Highlands?” asked Dr. Johnson… …So far they had had … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles H. Bennett, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone Shakespearian scholar, Frederick A. Pottle, George Macaulay Trevelyan, James Boswell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Collings, Thomas Rowlandson
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boswell and johnson: on the road again
James Boswell dragged Dr. Samuel Johnson form Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the lowlands. Boswell could, and soon set about immortalizing the tour. “Who can like the Highlands?,” asked Dr. Johnson… After some interesting conversations with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles H. Bennett, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone Shakespearian scholar, Frederick A. Pottle, James Boswell, Joseph Ritter Boswell servant, Lord Monboddo, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Collings, Thomas Rowlandson
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like the highlands?
Who can like the highlands? At least that was the question asked by Dr. Johnson after Boswell had dragged him from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back from the Lowlands. Boswell could, and soon set about immortalizing the tour… … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles H. Bennett, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone Shakespearian scholar, Frederick A. Pottle, James Boswell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Crumb, Samuel Collings, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Rowlandson
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tea time
Tea at the Boswells’: At rne past midnight the servant yawns and Boswell is asleep, but an unconcerned Dr. Johnson keeps on consuming tea and talking to Boswell’s long suffering wife. Boswell assured himself that his wife and his hero … Continue reading
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