Boswell's Life of Johnson, Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebride and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1934 - 556 pages |
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... pleasure ? I have a mind to write . ' I am glad of your hindrance in your Spenserian design 3 , yet I would not have it delayed . Three hours a day stolen from sleep and amuse- ment will produce it . Let a Servitour transcribe the ...
... pleasure ? I have a mind to write . ' I am glad of your hindrance in your Spenserian design 3 , yet I would not have it delayed . Three hours a day stolen from sleep and amuse- ment will produce it . Let a Servitour transcribe the ...
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... pleasure which I have not found . ' Letters , No. 190 . In his Journey into Wales ( Aug. 24 , post , v . 450 ) , he describes how Mrs. Thrale visited one of the scenes of her youth . She remembered the rooms , and wandred over them ...
... pleasure which I have not found . ' Letters , No. 190 . In his Journey into Wales ( Aug. 24 , post , v . 450 ) , he describes how Mrs. Thrale visited one of the scenes of her youth . She remembered the rooms , and wandred over them ...
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... pleasure and virtue , a struggle which will always be continued while the present system of nature shall subsist : nor can history or poetry exhibit more than pleasure triumphing over virtue , and virtue subjugating pleasure ยง . ' As Dr ...
... pleasure and virtue , a struggle which will always be continued while the present system of nature shall subsist : nor can history or poetry exhibit more than pleasure triumphing over virtue , and virtue subjugating pleasure ยง . ' As Dr ...
Contents
DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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