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 213
... conversation , no fair exertion of mind amongst them , if the young men are by ; for a man who has a character does not choose to stake it in their presence . " BOSWELL . " But , Sir , may there not be very good conversation with- out a ...
... conversation , no fair exertion of mind amongst them , if the young men are by ; for a man who has a character does not choose to stake it in their presence . " BOSWELL . " But , Sir , may there not be very good conversation with- out a ...
Page 306
... conversation there is more instruction , more information , and more elegance , than in Ramsay's . " BOSWELL . " What I admire in Ramsay , is his continuing to be so young . " JOHNSON . " Why , yes , Sir ; it is to be admired . I value ...
... conversation there is more instruction , more information , and more elegance , than in Ramsay's . " BOSWELL . " What I admire in Ramsay , is his continuing to be so young . " JOHNSON . " Why , yes , Sir ; it is to be admired . I value ...
Page 346
... conversation con- cerning the literary merits of the two countries , in which Buchanan was introduced , a Scotchman ... conversation was talk , yet he made a distinction ; for when he once told me that he dined the day before at a ...
... conversation con- cerning the literary merits of the two countries , in which Buchanan was introduced , a Scotchman ... conversation was talk , yet he made a distinction ; for when he once told me that he dined the day before at a ...
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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