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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... means a little more than merely giving over the remaining space to Johnson's own writings . It means supplementing Boswell's great portrait with the brilliant snapshots provided by others . Without drawing on at least Mrs. Piozzi and ...
... means a little more than merely giving over the remaining space to Johnson's own writings . It means supplementing Boswell's great portrait with the brilliant snapshots provided by others . Without drawing on at least Mrs. Piozzi and ...
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... mean genteel moral characters . " " I think ( said Hicky , ) gentility and morality are inseparable . " BOSWELL . " By no means , Sir . The genteelest characters are often the most immoral . Does not Lord Chesterfield give precepts for ...
... mean genteel moral characters . " " I think ( said Hicky , ) gentility and morality are inseparable . " BOSWELL . " By no means , Sir . The genteelest characters are often the most immoral . Does not Lord Chesterfield give precepts for ...
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... means of the solu- tion of some former writer The second letter , on the evils of imperfection , is little more than a paraphrase of Pope's epistles , or yet less than a paraphrase , a mere translation of poetry into prose . This is ...
... means of the solu- tion of some former writer The second letter , on the evils of imperfection , is little more than a paraphrase of Pope's epistles , or yet less than a paraphrase , a mere translation of poetry into prose . This is ...
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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