‘I’m coming, my Tetsie!’
Freya Johnston: Samuel Johnson’s Shoes, 9 May 2019
Samuel Johnson
edited by David Womersley.
Oxford, 1344 pp., £95, May 2018,978 0 19 960951 2 Show More
edited by David Womersley.
Oxford, 1344 pp., £95, May 2018,
“... to explain the footnote he appended, in his 1765 edition of Shakespeare’s plays, to a passage in King John about shoes: – – – slippers, (which his nimble hasteHad falsely thrust upon contrary feet,) I know not how the commentators understand this important passage, which in Dr Warburton’s edition is marked as eminently beautiful, and, on the ... ”