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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... happy are equally happy ; a little Miss with a new gown at a dancing - school ball , a General at the head of a victori- ous army , and an orator , after having made an eloquent speech in a great assembly . JOHNSON . " Sir , that all ...
... happy are equally happy ; a little Miss with a new gown at a dancing - school ball , a General at the head of a victori- ous army , and an orator , after having made an eloquent speech in a great assembly . JOHNSON . " Sir , that all ...
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... happy if they miss their counterparts . " JOHNSON . " To be sure not , Sir . I be- lieve marriages would in general be as happy , and often more so , if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor , upon a due consideration of the ...
... happy if they miss their counterparts . " JOHNSON . " To be sure not , Sir . I be- lieve marriages would in general be as happy , and often more so , if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor , upon a due consideration of the ...
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... happy in a future state , but we must not expect to be all happy in the same degree . It is enough , if we be happy according to our several capacities . A worthy carman will get to heaven as well as Sir Isaac Newton . Yet , though ...
... happy in a future state , but we must not expect to be all happy in the same degree . It is enough , if we be happy according to our several capacities . A worthy carman will get to heaven as well as Sir Isaac Newton . Yet , though ...
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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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