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 14
... manner were a ludicrous combination ; yet everything considered , the manner was better suited to the appear- ance than any other would have been . It was sound in Johnson , who must have failed with an informal approach , to assume a ...
... manner were a ludicrous combination ; yet everything considered , the manner was better suited to the appear- ance than any other would have been . It was sound in Johnson , who must have failed with an informal approach , to assume a ...
Page 144
... manner , with a sonorous voice , and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing room . After the King withdrew , Johnson shewed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's con- versation , and ...
... manner , with a sonorous voice , and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing room . After the King withdrew , Johnson shewed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's con- versation , and ...
Page 379
... manner that when you parted you would say , " This is an extraordinary man . ' Now , you may be long enough with me without finding anything extraordinary . " He said he believed Burke was intended for the Law , but either had not money ...
... manner that when you parted you would say , " This is an extraordinary man . ' Now , you may be long enough with me without finding anything extraordinary . " He said he believed Burke was intended for the Law , but either had not money ...
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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