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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 68
Page 183
... Suppose you teach your children to be thieves ? " MAYO . “ This is making a joke of the subject . ” JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , take it thus : - that you teach them the community of goods : for which there are as many plausible arguments as ...
... Suppose you teach your children to be thieves ? " MAYO . “ This is making a joke of the subject . ” JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , take it thus : - that you teach them the community of goods : for which there are as many plausible arguments as ...
Page 524
... suppose that it was his will and pleasure to add it in his case ; and it is mine to do so in my own . You are ... suppose I do , what then ? Perhaps I can give reasons for that disapprobation , very foreign from what you would imagine ...
... suppose that it was his will and pleasure to add it in his case ; and it is mine to do so in my own . You are ... suppose I do , what then ? Perhaps I can give reasons for that disapprobation , very foreign from what you would imagine ...
Page 715
... suppose , with the Oxford Editor , that he wrote por- tion . - WARBURTON . I will not suppose it . 2 HENRY IV But Falstaff unimitated , unimitable Falstaff , how shall I describe thee ? Thou compound of sense and vice ; of sense which ...
... suppose , with the Oxford Editor , that he wrote por- tion . - WARBURTON . I will not suppose it . 2 HENRY IV But Falstaff unimitated , unimitable Falstaff , how shall I describe thee ? Thou compound of sense and vice ; of sense which ...
Contents
Editors Introduction | 1 |
From The Life of Samuel Johnson | 41 |
From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | 376 |
Copyright | |
9 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance afterwards appeared asked Beauclerk believe better BOSWELL called censure character Cibber Colley Cibber considered conversation criticism death desire dined dinner drink Dunciad endeavoured favour Garrick gave genius gentleman give Goldsmith happy honour hope humour Iliad imagination JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind King knew labour lady Langton learning Lichfield literary live London Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Chesterfield Madam mankind manner ment mentioned merit mind morning nature ness never observed once opinion passion perhaps play pleased pleasure poem poet poetry Pope Pope's praise published reason recollect Robert Dodsley ROUSSEAU SAMUEL JOHNSON Savage Scotland seems Shakespeare shewed Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds sometimes Streatham suppose sure talk tell thing thought Thrale tion told truth Tyrconnel verses virtue Voltaire Whig Wilkes wine wish write wrote