A literary party hosted by artist Sir Joshua Reynolds in London, 1781. From left to right, writers James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, Reynolds, actor David Garrick, Irish statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke, Corsican patriot Pasquale Paoli, music historian Charles Burney, poet Thomas Warton and writer Oliver Goldsmith. The servant in the background may be Johnson's Jamaican manservant Francis Barber. From a painting by James William Edmund Doyle. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)
