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Excerpt from Johnson: Lives of Milton and AddisonOne had better be palsied at eighteen than not keep company with such a man. With these words Dempster consoled Boswell when he complained that drinking port and sitting up late with Dr Johnson affected his nerves. Hundreds feel the same enthusiasm still, and Sit up late to keep company with him in the graphic pages of Boswell. What, then, is the secret of Johnson's charm? Above all things it is the unique character of the man that com pels attention - a personality absolutely different from all others, striking in figure and in manners, great in know ledge and literary power, commanding in conversation and argument. He was original, not in that he was a champion of new ideas, but in that he could defend Old ideas in a novel manner. Thus it is Johnson the man rather than Johnson the writer that the world remem7 bers. His sayings, his mannerisms, his very weaknesses have a way of clinging to us for good. Those who remember his determination that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it, number far more than those who recall him as the author of Irene'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.