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 229
... common soldier is usually a very gross man , and any quality which pro- cures respect may be overwhelmed by grossness . A man of learning may be so vicious or so ridiculous that you cannot respect him . A common soldier too , generally ...
... common soldier is usually a very gross man , and any quality which pro- cures respect may be overwhelmed by grossness . A man of learning may be so vicious or so ridiculous that you cannot respect him . A common soldier too , generally ...
Page 238
... common mark ? ” JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir ; but we must attend to the difference between what men in general cannot do if they would , and what every man may do if he would . Sixteen - string Jack towered above the common mark . " BOSWELL ...
... common mark ? ” JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir ; but we must attend to the difference between what men in general cannot do if they would , and what every man may do if he would . Sixteen - string Jack towered above the common mark . " BOSWELL ...
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... common incidents of common life ; nothing real is introduced that is not seen so often as to be no longer regarded ; yet the whole detail of a female - day is here brought before us , invested with so much art of decora- tion , that ...
... common incidents of common life ; nothing real is introduced that is not seen so often as to be no longer regarded ; yet the whole detail of a female - day is here brought before us , invested with so much art of decora- tion , that ...
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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