The Portable Johnson & BoswellViking Press, 1947 - 762 من الصفحات 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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الصفحة 297
... person who wrote them . I am vexed at being shewn verses in that manner . " Miss REYNOLDS . " But if they should be good , why not give them hearty praise ? " JOHNSON . " Why , Madam , because I have not then got the better of my bad ...
... person who wrote them . I am vexed at being shewn verses in that manner . " Miss REYNOLDS . " But if they should be good , why not give them hearty praise ? " JOHNSON . " Why , Madam , because I have not then got the better of my bad ...
الصفحة 344
... person should exert himself for a man who has writ- ten a good book : he has not written it for any individual . I may as well make a present to the postman who brings me a letter . When patronage was limited , an authour expected to ...
... person should exert himself for a man who has writ- ten a good book : he has not written it for any individual . I may as well make a present to the postman who brings me a letter . When patronage was limited , an authour expected to ...
الصفحة 541
... person , instead of his writings , by one who was wholly a stranger to him , at a time when all the world knew he was persecuted by fortune ; and not only saw that this was attempted in a clandestine manner , with the utmost falsehood ...
... person , instead of his writings , by one who was wholly a stranger to him , at a time when all the world knew he was persecuted by fortune ; and not only saw that this was attempted in a clandestine manner , with the utmost falsehood ...
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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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acquaintance afterwards appeared asked Beauclerk believe better BOSWELL called censure character Cibber Colley Cibber considered conversation criticism death desire dined dinner drink Dunciad endeavoured favour Garrick gave genius gentleman give Goldsmith happy honour hope humour Iliad imagination JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind King knew labour lady Langton learning Lichfield literary live London Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Chesterfield Madam mankind manner ment mentioned merit mind morning nature ness never observed once opinion passion perhaps play pleased pleasure poem poet poetry Pope Pope's praise published reason recollect Robert Dodsley ROUSSEAU SAMUEL JOHNSON Savage Scotland seems Shakespeare shewed Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds sometimes Streatham suppose sure talk tell thing thought Thrale tion told truth Tyrconnel verses virtue Voltaire Whig Wilkes wine wish write wrote