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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Page 58
... London is not particularly known . I never heard that he found any protection or encouragement by the means of Mr. Colson , to whose academy David Garrick went . Mrs. Lucy Porter told me , that Mr. Walmsley gave him a letter of ...
... London is not particularly known . I never heard that he found any protection or encouragement by the means of Mr. Colson , to whose academy David Garrick went . Mrs. Lucy Porter told me , that Mr. Walmsley gave him a letter of ...
Page 269
... London , because a man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place . " JOHNSON . " A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place , whose mind is enlarged only because he has lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is ...
... London , because a man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place . " JOHNSON . " A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place , whose mind is enlarged only because he has lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is ...
Page 515
... London before he was abandoned . He might justly rep- resent that he ought to have been considered as a lion in the toils , and demand to be released before the dogs should be loosed upon him . He endeavoured , indeed , to release ...
... London before he was abandoned . He might justly rep- resent that he ought to have been considered as a lion in the toils , and demand to be released before the dogs should be loosed upon him . He endeavoured , indeed , to release ...
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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