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The Life of Samuel Johnson Together With the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. New Eds. With Notes and Appendices by A. Napier. [followed By]
The Life of Samuel Johnson Together With the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides New Eds With Notes and Appendices by A Napier - followed By Author:James Boswell Title: The Life of Samuel Johnson ... Together With the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. New Eds. With Notes and Appendices by A. Napier. [followed By] Johnsoniana, Ed. by R. Napier General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a... more » black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Wilkes and some more gentlemen on Wednesday, May 15. " Pray," said I, " let us have Dr. Johnson." " What, with Mr. Wilkes? not for the world," said Mr. Edward Dilly: "Dr. Johnson would never forgive me." "Come," said I, "if you'll let me negotiate for you, I will be answerable that all shall go well." Dilly. " Nay, if you will take it upon you, I am sure I shall be very happy to see them both here." Notwithstanding the high veneration which I entertained for Dr. Johnson, I was sensible that he was sometimes a little actuated by the spirit of contradiction, and by means of that I hoped I should gain my point. I was persuaded that if I had come upon him with a direct proposal, " Sir, will you dine in company with Jack Wilkes ?" he would have flown into a passion, and would probably have answered, " Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir! I'd as soon dine with Jack Ketch."' I, therefore, while we were sitting quietly by ourselves at his house in an evening, took occasion to open my plan thus : " Mr. Dilly, Sir, sends his respectful compliments to you, and would be happy if you would do him the honour to dine with him on Wednesday next along with me, as I must soon go to Scotland." JOHNSON. "Sir, I am obliged to Mr. Dilly. I will wait upon him -- " BOSWELL, " Provided, Sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have is agreeable to you ?" JOHNSON. " What do yo...« less