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595	Dear Genevieve, I am afraid I have some bad news, we are going to have to cancel the lectures next week - the lady has just rung up and has done something...	Curator curator@...	Sep 17, 2004 9:25 am
596	Hi all, Here's an idle speculation for you as we approach the anniversary of his birth... I dreamt I was at a lecture on something which Johnson had done (in...	Frank Lynch lynch_frank	Sep 17, 2004 11:14 am
597	... My first choice would be Rambler #134, the essay on procrastination. I thought about putting it on my own web site, but I never got around to it. ;<) ...	Arthur Chandler dr_sequoia	Sep 17, 2004 4:43 pm
598	On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:43:01 -0700, Arthur Chandler <arthurc@...> ... I actually hadn't thought about him including his -own- stuff... But you needn't...	Frank Lynch lynch_frank	Sep 17, 2004 4:50 pm
599	I suggest the Elegy on Robert Levett. I enjoy this poem more every time I read it. Hmmm-perhaps I should memorize it....	mthespinner@... mthespinner	Sep 17, 2004 4:58 pm
600	Johnson's prose, or an anthology of prose edited by Johnson?, -- Etc, Fr M J "Mike" Logsdon North American Old Roman Catholic Church (Utrecht Succession) ...	Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon fr_mike_logsdon	Sep 17, 2004 5:11 pm
601	I really meant an anthology selected by Johnson of the best prose -- perhaps he might inlcude some of his own, but I was thinking more about what he would...	Frank Lynch lynch_frank	Sep 17, 2004 5:14 pm
602	Definitely not Fielding! I'd imagine there would be Hooker, Addison, Robert South's sermons, Tillotson, Sir Thomas Browne, some Burke, Locke, Clarendon, maybe...	shandydidnotlast shandydidnot...	Sep 17, 2004 5:38 pm
603	I have some other ideas, but will wait... On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:38:40 -0000, shandydidnotlast <johnsoniana@...>...	Frank Lynch lynch_frank	Sep 17, 2004 7:35 pm
604	Hi, One of our group members has alerted me to a survey Yahoo! is hosting regarding its discussion groups service. The email I was forwarded didn't have any...	Frank Lynch lynch_frank	Sep 18, 2004 2:59 am
605	I was thinking that a prime candidate for Johnson would have been Defoe's _Journal of a Plague Year_. It has all the verissimilitude which he praised in...	lynch_frank	Sep 20, 2004 12:50 am
606	Hi all, Your efforts to search for specific Johnson text have now been made much easier: the search engine at my web site now spiders both my web site and the...	Frank Lynch lynch_frank	Sep 20, 2004 3:49 pm
607	I was mulling over this passage from the Idler, in which Dr. Johnson is speaking of the nature of painting: *The action must be circumstantial and distinct....	Arthur Chandler dr_sequoia	Sep 21, 2004 5:57 pm
608	The "knowledge is of two kinds" quotation comes from a discussion where Johnson has ignored a host's paintings in order to peruse his library, if that helps......	Frank Lynch lynch_frank	Sep 21, 2004 6:20 pm
609	The best answer to the original question can probably be achieved by reading Morris Brownell, Samuel Johnson's Attitude to the Arts...	shandydidnotlast shandydidnot...	Sep 22, 2004 4:06 pm
610	This lecture is taking place at the Georgian Group in Fitzroy Square on November 3rd - I wondered if it might be of interest to you. Yours, Natasha McEnroe ...	Curator curator@...	Oct 21, 2004 3:13 pm
611	Dear Johnsonites, I was unable to help with this query from Ralph Keyes, who's getting a copy of this message (and please do include him -- ...	Jack Lynch jlynch@...	Oct 26, 2004 6:08 pm
612	Nor is there further information in either the McGraw-Hill edition of Boswell's journals for April 30 1773, nor in the Redford edition of the 2nd volume of the...	Frank Lynch lynch_frank	Oct 26, 2004 6:23 pm
613	If you type in "fine, strike it out" into Google, you get a slew of references. Those that identify it place it in Boswell: ...	Arthur Chandler dr_sequoia	Oct 26, 2004 6:38 pm
614	Arthur Chandler writes: If you type in "fine, strike it out" into Google, you get a slew of references. Those that identify it place it in Boswell: ...	Jack Lynch jlynch@...	Oct 26, 2004 6:41 pm
615	On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:38:52 -0700, Arthur Chandler <arthurc@...> ... No question about it being in Boswell (it's in the April 1773 entries) I think the...	Frank Lynch lynch_frank	Oct 26, 2004 6:42 pm
616	It sounds to me as if Johnson is recalling something he's read rather than speaking from his own personal experience of being at Oxford. There are several...	Anne McDermott emilymcduk	Oct 28, 2004 10:58 am
617	I'm sending this out a couple days in advance on the calendar, in case you've registered a work email address... So far as I know, Johnson never traipsed...	Frank Lynch lynch_frank	Oct 29, 2004 1:56 am
618	I'm not sure that Johnson would have been happy with Halloween. I for one am sorry to see how it has come to supplant Guy Fawkes. Regards, Alexander...	Schulenburg, Alexander Alexander.Schulenburg...	Oct 29, 2004 8:23 am
619	As we all know Johnson received a pension of 300 pounds in 1762. In re-reading Boswell for the Defense it was stated in an entry on March 19, 1772 that Paoli...	Monboddo@... monboddo1	Oct 30, 2004 11:58 pm
620	... There is that suggestion, but a couple points are worth remembering. On the side of the Crown, I'm sure there were political liabilities associated with...	Frank Lynch lynch_frank	Oct 31, 2004 3:14 am
621	There's a very good article about Harvard's newly-acquired Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson here: ...	Arthur Chandler dr_sequoia	Nov 9, 2004 8:24 pm
622	King's College English Department and King's College Library Are happy to announce a FREE LECTURE 'A Granddame's Garrulity: Hester Lynch Piozzi in Late Life' ...	Curator curator@...	Nov 10, 2004 4:30 pm
623	When Boswell is describing Johnson's work on the Dictionary, he refers to Johnson "tugging at his oar". I had an idea that this was a Bible reference of some...	henry_hitchings	Nov 10, 2004 6:05 pm
624	I meant to describe Philip Henry as a DIVINE, of course!...	henry_hitchings	Nov 10, 2004 6:21 pm

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