Boswell's Life of Johnson - Augustine Birrell - Bog

More than sixty years ago, Carlyle, writing in Fratter's Magazine, observed in that manner of his which has now become part of our incorporate existence, that the new edition of Boswell, then lately undertaken by Mr. Croker was a praiseworthy but no miraculous procedure - in no way an event in universal history, and indeed in very truth one of the most insignificant of things.