EDNote: The question really seems to refer to the relevant page in
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. I do not have that work at
hand, but the following web site of excerpts includes the appropriate
passage, cited as coming from among pages 1203-1219 of R.W. Chapman's
1904 Oxford edition
(quotation #62). Quotation 65 may be the passage referred to by Candi
Deschamps. But we await a more detailed and accurate report from any
intrepid contributor. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/BLJ/b1203.html
I have two editions of Pale Fire ( The
Library of America and Everyman´s Library) but I could not find the
interesting Kinbotian comment in them. You wrote "on the very same page
as the Hodge quotation, you´ll find Boswell lamenting...". In what
edition did it appear?