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 368
... tion has been scarce a disappointment ; and , from your Lord- ship's kindness , I have received a benefit , which only men like you are able to bestow . I shall not live mihi carior , with a higher opinion of my own merit . I am , my ...
... tion has been scarce a disappointment ; and , from your Lord- ship's kindness , I have received a benefit , which only men like you are able to bestow . I shall not live mihi carior , with a higher opinion of my own merit . I am , my ...
Page 634
... tion ; but it will not be denied that he added much to what he found . He cultivated our language with so much diligence and art that he has left in his Homer a treasure of poetical elegances to posterity . His version may be said to ...
... tion ; but it will not be denied that he added much to what he found . He cultivated our language with so much diligence and art that he has left in his Homer a treasure of poetical elegances to posterity . His version may be said to ...
Page 648
... 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 , surely , to attack ...
... 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 , surely , to attack ...
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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