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
... once tried knotting . Dempster's sister undertook to teach me ; but I could not learn it . " BoswELL . " So , Sir ; it will be related in pompous narrative , ' Once for his amusement he tried knotting ; nor did this Hercules disdain the ...
... once tried knotting . Dempster's sister undertook to teach me ; but I could not learn it . " BoswELL . " So , Sir ; it will be related in pompous narrative , ' Once for his amusement he tried knotting ; nor did this Hercules disdain the ...
Page 499
... once he had entered a tavern , or engaged in a scheme of pleas- ure , he never retired till want of money obliged him to some new expedient . If he was entertained in a family , nothing was any longer to be regarded there but amuse ...
... once he had entered a tavern , or engaged in a scheme of pleas- ure , he never retired till want of money obliged him to some new expedient . If he was entertained in a family , nothing was any longer to be regarded there but amuse ...
Page 719
... once more see you . I was , I once was , Madam , most truly yours , I will come down , if you permit it . SAM . JOHNSON . SIR , MRS . PIOZZI TO DR . JOHNSON I have this morning received from you so rough a letter in reply to one which ...
... once more see you . I was , I once was , Madam , most truly yours , I will come down , if you permit it . SAM . JOHNSON . SIR , MRS . PIOZZI TO DR . JOHNSON I have this morning received from you so rough a letter in reply to one which ...
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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