Tag Archives: James Boswell

boswell and johnson: road show

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Dave

“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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at the top of dun caan

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Dave

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 →

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well of the dead

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Dave

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 →

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scottify yourself

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Dave

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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local hospitality: johnson & boswell on their rounds

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Dave

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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earthquakes and lots of …bonking

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Dave

Aftershocks. James Boswell’s infidelities. Henry Fielding. The general social and gaming scene of Georgian England from the royal family down to the masses. It was bawdy, it was bad, and despite the consternations of a William Hogarth it was so … Continue reading →

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dr. johnson and iona: fruitful but ignorant bliss

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Dave

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 →

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boswell: hebride divinity

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Dave

The adventures of James Boswell and Dr. Samuel Johnson on their tour of the Scottish Highlands; the wilds and the barbarous collide in the Hebrides As Boswell suggested to Johnson, “we might there contemplate a system of life almost totally … Continue reading →

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boswell and johnson: highlands hopping

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Dave

“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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highlander: tourists in the wild

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Dave

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 →