Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D

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Boswell speaks of this admirable work as one those years of absence, on hearing of her dying sickness, he neglected to hasten to her; and when this very letter, in which he addresses her as "dear and honored," was written as a sort of postscript to a letter which he had addressed to his step-daughter ! Children, whether older or younger, cannot be too well assured that such is no true way of honoring their parents. Well might he write to his step-daughter, after his mother's death, " If she wer
...e to live again I should beliavo better to her." Life of Samuel yohnson. 119 which, though its author "had written nothing else, would have rendered his name immortal in the world of literature. None of his writings has been so extensively diffused over Europe, for it has been translated into most, if not all, the modern languages. This tale, with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English language is capable, leads us through the most important scenes of human life, and shows us that this stage of our being is full of vanity and vexation of spirit." And it was a criticism of a very accomplished lady, that Rasselas " may be con- sidered as a more enlarged and more deeply philosophical discourse in prose upon the in- teresting truth which, in his ' Vanity of Human Wishes,' he had so successfully enforced in 120 Life of Samuel Johnson.

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