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 244
... Thus I secured him , and told Dilly that he would find him very well pleased to be one of his guests on the day appointed . Upon the much expected Wednesday , I called on him about half an hour before dinner , as I often 244 JAMES BOSWELL.
... Thus I secured him , and told Dilly that he would find him very well pleased to be one of his guests on the day appointed . Upon the much expected Wednesday , I called on him about half an hour before dinner , as I often 244 JAMES BOSWELL.
Page 499
... expected that order and business should fly before him , that all should thenceforward be left to hazard , and that no dull principle of domestic management should be opposed to his inclination or intrude upon his gaiety . His ...
... expected that order and business should fly before him , that all should thenceforward be left to hazard , and that no dull principle of domestic management should be opposed to his inclination or intrude upon his gaiety . His ...
Page 580
... expected to give Pope information of the seem- ing injury . Lintot , I believe , did nothing , and Curll did what was expected . That to make them public was the only purpose may be reasonably supposed , because the numbers offered to ...
... expected to give Pope information of the seem- ing injury . Lintot , I believe , did nothing , and Curll did what was expected . That to make them public was the only purpose may be reasonably supposed , because the numbers offered to ...
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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