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 59
... took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome . When I returned to Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother asked me , whether I was one of those who gave the wall , or those who took it . Now it is fixed that every man keeps ...
... took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome . When I returned to Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother asked me , whether I was one of those who gave the wall , or those who took it . Now it is fixed that every man keeps ...
Page 169
... took up a glass of wine , and , by a fillip , made some of it fly in Oglethorpe's face . Here was a nice dilemma . To have challenged him instantly , might have fixed a quarrelsome character upon the young soldier : to have taken no ...
... took up a glass of wine , and , by a fillip , made some of it fly in Oglethorpe's face . Here was a nice dilemma . To have challenged him instantly , might have fixed a quarrelsome character upon the young soldier : to have taken no ...
Page 393
... took care to act as he ought to have done . There was no wheat - loaf , but only a kind of bannock or cake , raw in the heart , as it was so thick . Sir Alexander himself drank punch without souring and with little spirits in it , which ...
... took care to act as he ought to have done . There was no wheat - loaf , but only a kind of bannock or cake , raw in the heart , as it was so thick . Sir Alexander himself drank punch without souring and with little spirits in it , 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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