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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
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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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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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
who can like the highlands?
Or so 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. … Among the arts of life, Jean Cocteau once … Continue reading
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Tagged David Hume, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Jean Cocteau, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Wilkes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Collings, Thomas Rowlandson, Tom Davies Bookshop
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SPACE CADETS & MECHANIC METEORS
After generations of trial and error, mostly error, man’s age old dream of flying was realized near the end of the eighteenth century in the form of the hot air balloon. This was followed by several decades where daring aeronauts … Continue reading
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Tagged Albertus Magnus, Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Johnson, Emanuel Swedenborg, Etienne Montgofier, Father Francesco de Lana, Friar Roger Bacon, Henry Cavendish, Horace Walpole, hot air balloons history, J.A.C. Charles, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Joseph Addison, Joseph Priestley, Leonardo Da Vinci, Montgolfier, Vincent Lunardi
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DISTINCT FROM THE AMBIANCE OF HISTORY
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin West, Claude Lorrain, David Wilkie, Dr. Johnson, English Landscape painting, George Crabbe, Gerald E. Finley, Handel, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Martin, John Sunderland, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, Leslie Pyke, London Royal Academy of Arts, Peter Paul Rubens, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stephen Prickett, Thomas Gainsborough, William Wordsworth
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GOTHIC D.I.Y & FORGETTING TO DIE
You can build it. We can help. Lets build something together.So the slogans go. The eighteenth-century quest for the shudders went well beyond the craving for ”horrid” novels and took the form of horrid architecture that seemed to be permeated … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Amanda Vickery, Batty Langley, Charles Over, Christopher Wren, Desmond Williams, Dr. Johnson, Helen Keller, Horace Walpole, Horton Folly Tower, Humphrey Sturt, Inigo Jones, James Bond, Jonathan Glancey, Madeline Gins, Reversible Destiny Lofts, Shusaku Arakawa
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