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 468
... favours and uncertain patronage afforded him ; sources by which he was sometimes very liberally supplied , and which at other ... favour him at one time as another , he was tempted to squander what he had , because he always hoped to be ...
... favours and uncertain patronage afforded him ; sources by which he was sometimes very liberally supplied , and which at other ... favour him at one time as another , he was tempted to squander what he had , because he always hoped to be ...
Page 502
... favour of the public ; but , whatever was the reason , he did not find the world equally inclined to favour him ; and he observed , with some discontent , that though he offered his works at half a guinea , he was able to procure but a ...
... favour of the public ; but , whatever was the reason , he did not find the world equally inclined to favour him ; and he observed , with some discontent , that though he offered his works at half a guinea , he was able to procure but a ...
Page 660
... favour and com- petition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has perished ; his works support no opinion with arguments , nor supply any faction with invectives ; they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify ...
... favour and com- petition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has perished ; his works support no opinion with arguments , nor supply any faction with invectives ; they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify ...
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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