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 201
... writes very rapidly . The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading , in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book . " Friday , April 7 , I dined with him at a Tavern , with a numerous company ...
... writes very rapidly . The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading , in order to write ; a man will turn over half a library to make one book . " Friday , April 7 , I dined with him at a Tavern , with a numerous company ...
Page 255
... write A Panegyrick , he may keep vices out of sight : but if he professes to write A Life , he must represent it really as it was ; " and when I objected to the danger of telling that Parnell drank to excess , he said , that “ it would ...
... write A Panegyrick , he may keep vices out of sight : but if he professes to write A Life , he must represent it really as it was ; " and when I objected to the danger of telling that Parnell drank to excess , he said , that “ it would ...
Page 420
... write my brother's life ; but I begged him rather to write the Life of Mr. Fletcher of Saultoun , and he promised me he would do so . ' " ROUSSEAU . " Yes , Sir ; I will write it with the greatest care and pleasure . I shall offend the ...
... write my brother's life ; but I begged him rather to write the Life of Mr. Fletcher of Saultoun , and he promised me he would do so . ' " ROUSSEAU . " Yes , Sir ; I will write it with the greatest care and pleasure . I shall offend 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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