As great as ever …

… The Lamp Magazine | Saint Samuel of Fleet Street.. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Boswell is a new man in Johnson’s world; he belongs to the epoch of Rousseau; all the attitudes that we associate with the end of the eighteenth century—the onset of “sensibility,” the obsession with the individual and the curious, the swelling tide of individuality—are strongly present in him. Where Johnson still belongs to the world of Aristotle and Aquinas, the giant system-builders, Boswell inhabits the ruins of that world.