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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... honour , but it would do nobody else honour . I have , indeed , not read it all . But when I take up the end of a web , and find it packthread , I do not expect , by looking further , to find embroidery . " On Thursday , October 19 , I ...
... honour , but it would do nobody else honour . I have , indeed , not read it all . But when I take up the end of a web , and find it packthread , I do not expect , by looking further , to find embroidery . " On Thursday , October 19 , I ...
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... honour of wit or the influence of beauty . If bad writers were to pass without reprehension , what should restrain them ? impune diem consumpserit ingens Telephus ; and upon bad writers only will censure have much effect . The satire ...
... honour of wit or the influence of beauty . If bad writers were to pass without reprehension , what should restrain them ? impune diem consumpserit ingens Telephus ; and upon bad writers only will censure have much effect . The satire ...
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... honour . He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence , but perhaps not one play , which , if it were now ex- hibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would be heard to the conclusion . I am indeed far from thinking , that ...
... honour . He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence , but perhaps not one play , which , if it were now ex- hibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would be heard to the conclusion . I am indeed far from thinking , that ...
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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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