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 267
... hears it mentioned to her , as at the thing itself . I told her , ' Madam , you are contented to hear every day said to you , what the highest of mankind have died for , rather than bear .'- You know , Sir , the highest of mankind have ...
... hears it mentioned to her , as at the thing itself . I told her , ' Madam , you are contented to hear every day said to you , what the highest of mankind have died for , rather than bear .'- You know , Sir , the highest of mankind have ...
Page 429
... hear it . ” BOSWELL . “ Ha ! Ha ! I was joking ; for in your books , you write in favour of greed . I know what you are about to say , and it is just what I was hoping to hear . I wanted to solicit your soup . I had a great desire to ...
... hear it . ” BOSWELL . “ Ha ! Ha ! I was joking ; for in your books , you write in favour of greed . I know what you are about to say , and it is just what I was hoping to hear . I wanted to solicit your soup . I had a great desire to ...
Page 745
... hear a sen- tence again without the French in it ? Here is no in- vasion coming , and you know there is none . Let the vexatious and frivolous talk alone , or suffer it at least to teach you one truth ; and learn by this perpetual echo ...
... hear a sen- tence again without the French in it ? Here is no in- vasion coming , and you know there is none . Let the vexatious and frivolous talk alone , or suffer it at least to teach you one truth ; and learn by this perpetual echo ...
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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