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"1750" Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
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In progress of time, when my mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian æther, I could, with much more facility and exactness, carry in my memory and commit to paper the exuberant variety of his wit and wisdom.
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James Boswell
James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish author. (Originally published 1791). Life of Johnson, July 1, 1763, p. 297, Oxford University Press (1980).
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