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 496
... received punctually 50l . a year : a salary which , though by no means equal to the demands of vanity and luxury , is yet found sufficient to support fam- ilies above want , and was undoubtedly more than the necessities of life require ...
... received punctually 50l . a year : a salary which , though by no means equal to the demands of vanity and luxury , is yet found sufficient to support fam- ilies above want , and was undoubtedly more than the necessities of life require ...
Page 502
... receiving his proposals he sent him ten guineas . But the money which his subscriptions afforded him was not less volatile than that which he received from his other schemes ... received in small sums , he never was able 502 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... receiving his proposals he sent him ten guineas . But the money which his subscriptions afforded him was not less volatile than that which he received from his other schemes ... received in small sums , he never was able 502 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Page 507
... received soon after an account that took from him all hopes of regaining his pension ; and he had now no prospect of subsistence but from his play , and he knew no way of living for the time required to finish it . So peculiar were the ...
... received soon after an account that took from him all hopes of regaining his pension ; and he had now no prospect of subsistence but from his play , and he knew no way of living for the time required to finish it . So peculiar were 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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