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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... hope that in another world the sexes will be equal . " BOSWELL . " That is being too am- bitious , Madam . We might as well desire to be equal with the angels . We shall all , I hope , be happy in a future state , but we must not expect ...
... hope that in another world the sexes will be equal . " BOSWELL . " That is being too am- bitious , Madam . We might as well desire to be equal with the angels . We shall all , I hope , be happy in a future state , but we must not expect ...
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... hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients , are willing to hope from pos- terity what the present age refuses , and flatter them- selves that the regard ...
... hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients , are willing to hope from pos- terity what the present age refuses , and flatter them- selves that the regard ...
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... hope , teach him to for- give insults he has not deserved ; mine will , I hope , enable me to bear them at once with dignity and pa- tience . To hear that I have forfeited my fame is indeed the greatest insult I ever yet received . My ...
... hope , teach him to for- give insults he has not deserved ; mine will , I hope , enable me to bear them at once with dignity and pa- tience . To hear that I have forfeited my fame is indeed the greatest insult I ever yet received . My ...
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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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