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 547
... considered as an instance of Addison's jealousy ; for as he could not guess the conduct of the new design , or the possibilities of pleasure com- prised in a fiction of which there had been no examples , he might very reasonably and ...
... considered as an instance of Addison's jealousy ; for as he could not guess the conduct of the new design , or the possibilities of pleasure com- prised in a fiction of which there had been no examples , he might very reasonably and ...
Page 613
... considered ; in the tumult of business , interest and passion have their genuine effect ; but a friendly letter is a calm and deliberate performance , in the cool of leisure , in the stillness of solitude , and surely no man sits down ...
... considered ; in the tumult of business , interest and passion have their genuine effect ; but a friendly letter is a calm and deliberate performance , in the cool of leisure , in the stillness of solitude , and surely no man sits down ...
Page 707
... considered as very reprehensible , if I have suffered it to play some freaks in its own dominion . There is no danger in conjecture , if it be proposed as conjecture ; and while the text remains uninjured , those changes may be safely ...
... considered as very reprehensible , if I have suffered it to play some freaks in its own dominion . There is no danger in conjecture , if it be proposed as conjecture ; and while the text remains uninjured , those changes may be safely ...
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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