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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... wine ; and that may be greater than the pleasure . Wine makes a man better pleased with him- self . I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others . Sometimes it does . But the danger is , that while a man grows better pleased ...
... wine ; and that may be greater than the pleasure . Wine makes a man better pleased with him- self . I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others . Sometimes it does . But the danger is , that while a man grows better pleased ...
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... wine , any other consideration is a trifle . To please others by drinking wine , is something only , if there be nothing against it . I should , however , be sorry to offend worthy men : Curst be the verse , how well so e'er it flow ...
... wine , any other consideration is a trifle . To please others by drinking wine , is something only , if there be nothing against it . I should , however , be sorry to offend worthy men : Curst be the verse , how well so e'er it flow ...
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... wine I think the worst ; it is wine only to the eye ; it is wine neither while you are drinking it , nor after you have drunk it ; it neither pleases the taste , nor exhilarates the out spirits . " I reminded him how heartily he and I ...
... wine I think the worst ; it is wine only to the eye ; it is wine neither while you are drinking it , nor after you have drunk it ; it neither pleases the taste , nor exhilarates the out spirits . " I reminded him how heartily he and I ...
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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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