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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... play now has it . The Epilogue , as Johnson informed me , was written by Sir William Yonge . I know not how his play came to be thus graced by the pen of a person then so eminent in the political world . Notwithstanding all the support ...
... play now has it . The Epilogue , as Johnson informed me , was written by Sir William Yonge . I know not how his play came to be thus graced by the pen of a person then so eminent in the political world . Notwithstanding all the support ...
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... play was wrong in the concoction . Now , what is the concoction of a play ? " ( Here Garrick started , and twisted himself , and seemed sorely vexed ; for John- son told me , he believed the story was true . ) GARRICK . “ I — I — I ...
... play was wrong in the concoction . Now , what is the concoction of a play ? " ( Here Garrick started , and twisted himself , and seemed sorely vexed ; for John- son told me , he believed the story was true . ) GARRICK . “ I — I — I ...
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... play a woman ; I have a beard coming . QUINCE . That's all one ; you shall play it in a masque . This passage shews how the want of women on the old Stage was supplied . If they had not a young man who could perform the part with a face ...
... play a woman ; I have a beard coming . QUINCE . That's all one ; you shall play it in a masque . This passage shews how the want of women on the old Stage was supplied . If they had not a young man who could perform the part with a face ...
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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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