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 35
... Shakespeare nor re - creates him in his own image . To Johnson , as to us , Shakespeare was a fallible and uneven writer , and a supreme genius rather than a supreme artist . For Johnson , in fact , he was pre - eminently a " poet of ...
... Shakespeare nor re - creates him in his own image . To Johnson , as to us , Shakespeare was a fallible and uneven writer , and a supreme genius rather than a supreme artist . For Johnson , in fact , he was pre - eminently a " poet of ...
Page 36
... Shakespearean blunders - the setting of Shakespeare's comedy higher than his tragedy . " His tragedy , " Johnson summed up , " seems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . ” But even were this so , Johnson would be ignoring the fact ...
... Shakespearean blunders - the setting of Shakespeare's comedy higher than his tragedy . " His tragedy , " Johnson summed up , " seems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . ” But even were this so , Johnson would be ignoring the fact ...
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... Shakespeare it is commonly a species . It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived . It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick wis- dom . It was said of ...
... Shakespeare it is commonly a species . It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived . It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick wis- dom . It was said of ...
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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