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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... talk in character . " For instance , ( said he , ) the fable of the little fishes , who saw birds fly over their heads , and envying them , petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds . The skill ( continued he , ) consists in making ...
... talk in character . " For instance , ( said he , ) the fable of the little fishes , who saw birds fly over their heads , and envying them , petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds . The skill ( continued he , ) consists in making ...
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... talk ; and now he cannot talk . " Mr. Perkins made a shrewd and droll remark : “ If he had got his four thou- sand a year as a mountebank , he might have learnt to talk at the same time that he was getting his fortune . " Some other ...
... talk ; and now he cannot talk . " Mr. Perkins made a shrewd and droll remark : “ If he had got his four thou- sand a year as a mountebank , he might have learnt to talk at the same time that he was getting his fortune . " Some other ...
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... talks in private company ; not from any determination not to talk , but because he has not the first motion . A man who is used to the applause of the House of Commons , has no wish for that of a private company . A man accustomed to ...
... talks in private company ; not from any determination not to talk , but because he has not the first motion . A man who is used to the applause of the House of Commons , has no wish for that of a private company . A man accustomed to ...
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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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