The Portable Johnson & BoswellViking Press, 1947 - 762 Seiten 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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... afterwards pro- duce anything of such unexampled excellence . Those performances which strike with wonder , are combina- tions of skilful genius with happy casualty ; and it is not likely that any felicity , like the discovery of a new ...
... afterwards pro- duce anything of such unexampled excellence . Those performances which strike with wonder , are combina- tions of skilful genius with happy casualty ; and it is not likely that any felicity , like the discovery of a new ...
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... afterwards so low , that 140 copies were sold at 16s . each . On this undertaking , to which Pope was induced by a reward of 2171. 12s . , he seems never to have reflected afterwards without vexation ; for Theobald , a man of heavy ...
... afterwards so low , that 140 copies were sold at 16s . each . On this undertaking , to which Pope was induced by a reward of 2171. 12s . , he seems never to have reflected afterwards without vexation ; for Theobald , a man of heavy ...
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... afterwards decently retract . With these precautions , in 1732 was published the first part of the " Essay on Man . " There had been for some time a report that Pope was busy upon a System of Morality ; but this design was not ...
... afterwards decently retract . With these precautions , in 1732 was published the first part of the " Essay on Man . " There had been for some time a report that Pope was busy upon a System of Morality ; but this design was not ...
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Editors Introduction | 1 |
From The Life of Samuel Johnson | 41 |
From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | 376 |
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