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 185
... attention of the com- pany , Goldsmith in a passion threw down his hat , look- ing angrily at Johnson , and exclaimed in a bitter tone , " Take it . " When Toplady was going to speak , Johnson uttered some sound , which led Goldsmith to ...
... attention of the com- pany , Goldsmith in a passion threw down his hat , look- ing angrily at Johnson , and exclaimed in a bitter tone , " Take it . " When Toplady was going to speak , Johnson uttered some sound , which led Goldsmith to ...
Page 625
... attention to slight faults or petty beauties , as to the general character and effect of each performance . It seems natural for a young poet to initiate himself by pastorals , which , not professing to imitate real life , require no ...
... attention to slight faults or petty beauties , as to the general character and effect of each performance . It seems natural for a young poet to initiate himself by pastorals , which , not professing to imitate real life , require no ...
Page 672
... attention , to which they are recom- mended by sonorous epithets and swelling figures . But the admirers of this great poet have never less reason to indulge their hopes of supreme excellence , than when he seems fully resolved to sink ...
... attention , to which they are recom- mended by sonorous epithets and swelling figures . But the admirers of this great poet have never less reason to indulge their hopes of supreme excellence , than when he seems fully resolved to sink ...
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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