“It is the story of a mountebank and his zany.”

— Horace Walpole

Statement about Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, as described in Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., in a letter to Hon. Henry Conway (6 October 1785)

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English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig… 1717–1797

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