| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1920 - 794 דפים
...words of his ' Journey to the Western Islands,' Johnson says : ' I had desired to visit the Hebrides or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited.' Quoting this, Boswell says : ' He told me, in summer 1763, that his father put Martin's account into... | |
| John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 דפים
...observations. He begins with informing us, that he had desired to visit the Hebrides, " so long, says he, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally...Boswell * a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the... | |
| John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 דפים
...observations. He begins with informing us, that he had desired to visit the Hebrides, " so long, says he, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally...to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell 1 a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 דפים
...the Strand. MDCCLXXV. JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND. 1HAD desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely...Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the... | |
| Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1924 - 322 דפים
...Bozzy that Johnson ever did visit Scotland. Johnson in his " Journey " writes : " I was induced to take the journey by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the... | |
| Helen Louise Cohen - 1927 - 406 דפים
..." I had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long," writes Johnson, " that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally...Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the... | |
| Stuart Sherman - 1996 - 352 דפים
...sentence propounds a tacit credo, a subliminal topos of redaction: "I had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited. . . . " ls Johnson deals generously in geographical appositives (giving the reader both names for the... | |
| Peter Martin - 2002 - 644 דפים
...Western Islands of Scotland and forwarded to Boswell the highly gratifying opening sentence: 'I ... was in the autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake...Boswell a companion whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaity of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies... | |
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