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 4
... effect of art ; and few would deny that Boswell's Life provides a very powerful effect of art . The more familiar with it one be- comes , the surer one feels ( even without the evidence of the Notebooks ) that it has been creatively ...
... effect of art ; and few would deny that Boswell's Life provides a very powerful effect of art . The more familiar with it one be- comes , the surer one feels ( even without the evidence of the Notebooks ) that it has been creatively ...
Page 48
... effect which terminates in itself . A child is afraid of being whipped , and gets his task , and there's an end on't ; whereas , by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority , you lay the foundation of lasting mischief ; you ...
... effect which terminates in itself . A child is afraid of being whipped , and gets his task , and there's an end on't ; whereas , by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority , you lay the foundation of lasting mischief ; you ...
Page 160
... effect can be that of tepid moisture . " One of the com- pany took the other side , maintaining that medicines of various sorts , and some too of most powerful effect , are introduced into the human frame by the medium of the pores ...
... effect can be that of tepid moisture . " One of the com- pany took the other side , maintaining that medicines of various sorts , and some too of most powerful effect , are introduced into the human frame by the medium of the pores ...
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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