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 212
... allow it then in writing ? Why do you take the trouble to give us so many fine allusions , and bright images , and ... allowed to be excellent . Johnson censured him for taking down a church which might have stood many years , and ...
... allow it then in writing ? Why do you take the trouble to give us so many fine allusions , and bright images , and ... allowed to be excellent . Johnson censured him for taking down a church which might have stood many years , and ...
Page 259
... allow merit to a player . ” JOHNSON . " Merit , Sir , what merit ? Do you respect a rope - dancer , or a ballad - singer ? " BOSWELL . " No , Sir : but we respect a great player , as a man who can con- ceive lofty sentiments , and can ...
... allow merit to a player . ” JOHNSON . " Merit , Sir , what merit ? Do you respect a rope - dancer , or a ballad - singer ? " BOSWELL . " No , Sir : but we respect a great player , as a man who can con- ceive lofty sentiments , and can ...
Page 422
... allow them to adopt none but the most strictly useful professions ; for example , he would not allow any son of his to be a Wig - maker . ' For , ' said he , ' so long as Nature continues to supply us with hair , the profession of Wig ...
... allow them to adopt none but the most strictly useful professions ; for example , he would not allow any son of his to be a Wig - maker . ' For , ' said he , ' so long as Nature continues to supply us with hair , the profession of Wig ...
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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