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The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
The Life of Samuel Johnson Vol 3 of 3 - Classic Reprint Author:James Boswell INTRODUCTION SAMUEL JOHNSON, aftenvards SO loyal a eulogist of London} only came up to it when he had already experilnented in life in various parts of the country. He was born at Lichfield in 1709; his father was a bookseller} and a worthy, if somc,,,hat sombre type, of that old thinking middle class of England (now so nearly extinct) of which ... more »his celebrated son will always be the great historic incarnation. He went to Oxford, to Pembroke College} vhere venerable ~les are told of his i ndependence and eccentricity: he became a master in a school at Market Bosworth, and subsequently the assistant of a bookseller in Birmingham. In his twenty-fifth rear occurred the curious and brief episode 0 his tnarriage; he married a vidow nanled Porter; she was considerably older than himself, and died very soon after the union. He spoke of her very rarely in after life but then always with marked tenderness. Faili ng in a second attempt at the trade of schoolmaster, he cam
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