...most of his own acquaintances had, but enables readers "to see him live, and to 'live o'er each scene' with him, as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life." " In his introduction, Boswell did his best to recruit the most famous of biographers to his side:...

...objectives in his life of Johnson: to enable the reader 'to see him live,' and to 'live o'er each scene' with him, as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life."38 Woolf, in the above and other entries, strove to bring not only herself but her friends and...

...see him live, and to "live o'er each scene" with him'. According to Boswell, 'had his other ftiends been as diligent and ardent as I was, he might have been almost entitely preserved' (Boswell 1970: 22). However, the diary was also a 'regisrer of one's life', by...

...reactions to the Life — involuntary tributes to Boswell's success in keeping Johnson from decay. "Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was," Boswell declared, "he might have been almost entirely preserved. As it is, I will venture to say that...

...Brady put it, Boswell was determined that Johnson should emerge as 'a moral hero of everyday life'.5 'Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was,' Boswell wrote in his preliminary remarks, 'he might have been almost entirely preserved.' Moreover,...

...Thomas Crawford, Glasgow, 1997 At the beginning of his Life of Samuel Johnson Boswell says that Johnson "will be seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever lived."1 I am not sure if that is true of Johnson but it is certainly true of Boswell himself from...

...Johnson's death seven years beforehand - into an unprecedented textual presence, through which its subject 'will be seen in this work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived'.'4 Yet the Life is also in practice a tendentious work, doggedly effacing awkward features of...

...and thought; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live, and to "live o'er each scene" with him, as he actually advanced through the several...more completely than any man who has ever yet lived. [8] And he will be seen as he really was; for I profess to write, not his panegyrick, which must be...

...other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was," Boswell wrote of his efforts to procure anecdotes, "he might have been almost entirely preserved. As...work more completely than any man who has ever yet lived."44 At the juncture of lived detail and artful fantasy, such diligent zeal transforms Boswell's...

...illustrate the enduring truth of his character, to keep him alive in eternal conversation with the faithful. "Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was," Boswell wrote of his efforts to procure anecdotes, "he might have been almost entirely preserved. As...