id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 29324 Courtenay, John A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) .txt text/plain 10346 825 76 first-rate wit, and as an intimate friend of Boswell, Courtenay Club, Courtenay did not join this group until four years after Johnson shortly after Johnson's death, a valued member of the Boswell circle. The period following Johnson's death was for Boswell a time of intense happy note, for Boswell's final mention of Courtenay in his journal minimized the subject's weaknesses, a man like Johnson presented Courtenay, like many others, saw in Johnson a Courtenay was the only writer before Boswell to praise Johnson's Latin revision, he forms his general evaluation of Johnson's writing into Chesterfield, and Dr. Samuel Johnson_ (1787) protested that Courtenay from the anonymous author of _A Poetical Epistle from the Ghost of Dr. Johnson_, mentioned earlier, who charged Courtenay with poor taste and many published attacks on Johnson, Boswell must have appreciated See _Boswell's Life of Johnson_, [19] Boswell quoted Courtenay's compliment in _Life_, II, 268. ./cache/29324.txt ./txt/29324.txt