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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... Human Wishes is , moreover , one of the finest poems of its kind that exists , and possibly the only extended thing of Johnson's upon which one can be- stow unsullied praise . Its kind is , to be sure , by no means the highest or most ...
... Human Wishes is , moreover , one of the finest poems of its kind that exists , and possibly the only extended thing of Johnson's upon which one can be- stow unsullied praise . Its kind is , to be sure , by no means the highest or most ...
Page 470
... human nature , by contemplating life from its highest gradations to its lowest ; and , had he afterwards applied to dramatic po- etry , he would perhaps not have had many superiors ; for as he never suffered any scene to pass before his ...
... human nature , by contemplating life from its highest gradations to its lowest ; and , had he afterwards applied to dramatic po- etry , he would perhaps not have had many superiors ; for as he never suffered any scene to pass before his ...
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... human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his scenes are occupied only by men , who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the ...
... human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his scenes are occupied only by men , who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the ...
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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