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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... heard that he found any protection or encouragement by the means of Mr. Colson , to whose academy David Garrick went . Mrs. Lucy Porter told me , that Mr. Walmsley gave him a letter of introduction to Lintot his bookseller , and that ...
... heard that he found any protection or encouragement by the means of Mr. Colson , to whose academy David Garrick went . Mrs. Lucy Porter told me , that Mr. Walmsley gave him a letter of introduction to Lintot his bookseller , and that ...
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... heard him swear or talk bawdy . ” Mr. Davies who sat next to Dr. Percy , having after this had some conversation aside with him , made a discovery which , in his zeal to pay court to Dr. Johnson , he eagerly pro- claimed aloud from the ...
... heard him swear or talk bawdy . ” Mr. Davies who sat next to Dr. Percy , having after this had some conversation aside with him , made a discovery which , in his zeal to pay court to Dr. Johnson , he eagerly pro- claimed aloud from the ...
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... heard not a single intellectual sen- tence , except that " a man who had been settled ten years in Minorca was become a much inferiour man to what he was in London , because a man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place . " JOHNSON . " A ...
... heard not a single intellectual sen- tence , except that " a man who had been settled ten years in Minorca was become a much inferiour man to what he was in London , because a man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place . " JOHNSON . " A ...
Inhalt
Editors Introduction | 1 |
From The Life of Samuel Johnson | 41 |
From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | 376 |
Urheberrecht | |
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