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 455
... performance of a writer thus distressed is not perfect , its faults ought surely to be imputed to a cause very different from want of genius , and must rather ex- cite pity than provoke censure . But when under these discouragements the ...
... performance of a writer thus distressed is not perfect , its faults ought surely to be imputed to a cause very different from want of genius , and must rather ex- cite pity than provoke censure . But when under these discouragements the ...
Page 494
... performance , and of which some have already employed more eminent writers ; but as he was perhaps not fully acquainted with the whole extent of his own design , and was writing to obtain a supply of wants too pressing to admit of long ...
... performance , and of which some have already employed more eminent writers ; but as he was perhaps not fully acquainted with the whole extent of his own design , and was writing to obtain a supply of wants too pressing to admit of long ...
Page 556
... performance , never testified any curiosity to see him , and who professed to have forgotten the terms on which he worked . The terms which Fenton uses are very mercantile : “ I think at first sight that his performance is commendable ...
... performance , never testified any curiosity to see him , and who professed to have forgotten the terms on which he worked . The terms which Fenton uses are very mercantile : “ I think at first sight that his performance is commendable ...
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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