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 539
... Pope learned the cant of an author , and began to treat critics with contempt , though he had yet suffered nothing from them . But the fondness of Wycherley was too violent to last . His esteem of Pope was such that he submitted some ...
... Pope learned the cant of an author , and began to treat critics with contempt , though he had yet suffered nothing from them . But the fondness of Wycherley was too violent to last . His esteem of Pope was such that he submitted some ...
Page 571
... Pope at his table , where he talked with so much grossness that Mrs. Pope was driven from the room . Pope discovered by a trick that he was a spy for the Court , and never con- sidered him as a man worthy of confidence . He soon ...
... Pope at his table , where he talked with so much grossness that Mrs. Pope was driven from the room . Pope discovered by a trick that he was a spy for the Court , and never con- sidered him as a man worthy of confidence . He soon ...
Page 624
... Pope . Poetry was not the sole praise of either ; for both ex- celled likewise in prose ; but Pope did not borrow his prose from his predecessor . The style of Dryden is capri- cious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform ...
... Pope . Poetry was not the sole praise of either ; for both ex- celled likewise in prose ; but Pope did not borrow his prose from his predecessor . The style of Dryden is capri- cious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform ...
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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