Talk:Life of Samuel Johnson (Hawkins book)

Johnson Template
I wanted to note that this is a discussion about the template at Template talk:Samuel Johnson. Ottava Rima (talk) 15:56, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Review in Gentleman's Magazine
The classical scholar Richard Porson wrote a particularly brutal review of Hawkins' book in the Gentleman's Magazine, the more brutal because it's written as ironical praise for Hawkins' spitefulness and inaccuracy. The only place I have found a copy of it is here, and you have to get to p. 450 of the PDF file to find it. I think it's worth quoting. Lexo (talk) 01:59, 8 November 2010 (UTC)