Boswell's "Life of Johnson"
Subtitle: an Edition of the Original Manuscript (Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell (Research Edition))
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: February 4, 1999
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780748606061
Subjects: English; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries
First sentence: [MS 304] Both in 1764 and 1765 it [would>] should seem that his habitual 'loathing to write' constitutional unwillingness to write prevailed in a most remarkable degree.