The Portable Johnson & BoswellViking Press, 1947 - 762 pages Two great and vivid personalitites of English letters revealed in their most charactersitc writings; Johnson; critical essays, letters, poems: Boswell; Life of Johnson, Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, and the Dialogue with Rousseau, etc. |
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... Johnson . It was indeed less his veneration for Johnson than his love of London and distaste for Scotland that kept driving him southward ; in fact , he moved to Lon- don — against his best interests — after Johnson died . But Johnson ...
... Johnson . It was indeed less his veneration for Johnson than his love of London and distaste for Scotland that kept driving him southward ; in fact , he moved to Lon- don — against his best interests — after Johnson died . But Johnson ...
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... Johnson ever wrote . It remains a classic study of disreputable- ness . The Preface to the Shakespeare is Johnson's solidest piece of criticism . It takes an Age - of - Reason view of its subject , which comes at least as close to our ...
... Johnson ever wrote . It remains a classic study of disreputable- ness . The Preface to the Shakespeare is Johnson's solidest piece of criticism . It takes an Age - of - Reason view of its subject , which comes at least as close to our ...
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Samuel Johnson, James Boswell Louis Kronenberger. more than a trace of truth in Johnson's dictum that Shakespeare " never has six lines together without a fault . " But , by and large , Johnson's responsiveness simply could not keep pace ...
Samuel Johnson, James Boswell Louis Kronenberger. more than a trace of truth in Johnson's dictum that Shakespeare " never has six lines together without a fault . " But , by and large , Johnson's responsiveness simply could not keep pace ...
Contents
Editors Introduction | 1 |
From The Life of Samuel Johnson | 41 |
From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | 376 |
Copyright | |
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