Another ‘patch'
A paltry fellow. Obsolete. What a py’d ninny’s this? thou scurvy patch? Shakesp.
Jane Davis’ interesting posts about reading Boswell’s Life of Johnson, come at an opportune time as Saturday (January 11th) saw the new year's first meeting of the Johnson Society of London at the Dickens Museum in Doughty Street.
Long time member Robert Plaskett delivered a brilliant lecture about Johnson's Dictionary as a work of literature. It was an…



