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Boswell's Life of Johnson
Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood | Boswell, James, 1740-1795 | en | | | Osgood, Charles Grosvenor, 1871-1964 [Editor] | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784; Authors, English -- 18th century; Biography; Lexicographers; Great Britain; Critics | 2006-05-12 |
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica | Boswell, James, 1740-1795 | en | | | Hill, George Birkbeck Norman, 1835-1903 [Editor] | | 2007-01-04 |
Life of Johnson, Volume 5
Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) | Boswell, James, 1740-1795 | en | | | | | 2003-12-01 |
Life of Johnson, Volume 4
1780-1784 | Boswell, James, 1740-1795 | en | | | | | 2003-12-01 |
Life of Johnson, Volume 6
Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. | Boswell, James, 1740-1795 | en | | | | | 2004-03-01 |
No Abolition of Slavery
Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem | Boswell, James, 1740-1795 | en | | | | | 2007-01-15 |
A Boswell of Baghdad
With Diversions | Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938 | en | | A Boswell of Baghdad -- Diversions -- On Bellona's hem. | | | 2006-12-10 |
James Boswell
Famous Scots Series | Leask, W. Keith (William Keith), 1857- | en | | | | Boswell, James, 1740-1795; Authors, Scottish -- 18th century -- Biography; Biographers -- Great Britain -- Biography | 2009-08-05 |
Phèdre. English | Racine, Jean, 1639-1699 | en | | | Boswell, Robert Bruce [Translator] | Phaedra (Greek mythology) -- Drama; Tragedies | 1999-11-01 |
Dr. Johnson and His Circle | Bailey, John Cann, 1864-1931 | en | | | | Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Friends and associates; Boswell, James, 1740-1795 -- Friends and associates; Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography; Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century | 2007-12-28 |
Views and Reviews
Essays in appreciation: Literature | Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903 | en | | Dickens -- Thackeray -- Disraeli -- Dumas -- Meredith -- Byron -- Hugo -- Heine -- Arnold -- Homer and Theocritus -- Rabelais -- Shakespeare -- Sidney -- Tour neur -- Walton -- Herrick -- Locker -- Banville -- Dobson -- Berlioz -- George Eliot -- Borrow -- Balzac -- Labiche -- Champfleury -- Longfellow -- Tennyson -- Gordon Hake -- Landor -- Hood -- Lever -- Jefferies -- Gay -- Essays and essayists -- Boswell -- Congreve -- Arabian nights entertainments -- Richardson -- Tolstoï -- Fielding. | | Literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism | 2007-08-08 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III | | en | | Excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Johnson"
A Poet Defined, from the Preface to "Lyrical Ballads" by Wordsworth
The Arrival of the Master of Ravenswood, from "The Bride of Lammermoor" by Scott
The Death of Meg Merriles, from "Guy Mannering" by Scott
A Vision of Rob Roy, from "Rob Roy" by Scott
Queen Elizabeth and Amy Robsart at Kenilworth, from "Kenilworth" by Scott
The Illness and Death of Lady Scott, from Scott's "Journal"
Does Fortune Favor Fools?, from "A Sailor's Fortune" by Coleridge
The Destiny of the United States, from the "Table Talk" by Coleridge
Nelson's Death at Trafalgar, from the "Life of Nelson" by Southey
The Death of Hofer, by Landor
Napoleon and Pericles, by Landor
Dream Children—A Reverie; Poor Relations; The Origin of Roast Pig; That We Should Rise with the Lark, from the "Essays of Elia" by Lamb
Hamlet, from the "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" by Hazlitt
Dreams of an Opium-Eater, from the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by de Quincey
Joan of Arc, from the "Biographical and Historical Essays" by de Quincey
Charles Lamb, from the "Literary Reminiscences" by de Quincey
Of His Mother's Treatment of Him, letter by Lord Byron
To His Wife after the Separation, letter by Lord Byron
To Sir Walter Scott, letter by Lord Byron
Of Art and Nature as Poetical Subjects, from the "Reply to Bowles" by Lord Byron
In Defense of Poetry, by Shelley
The Baths of Caracalla, from letter by Shelley
The ruins of Pompeii, from letter by Shelley
The Mutilation of the Hermæ; If Alexander Had Lived, from the "History of Greece" by Grote
Charlotte Corday, from the "History of the French Revolution" by Carlyle
The Blessedness of Work, from "Past and Present" by Carlyle
Cromwell, from "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History" by Carlyle
In Praise of Those Who Toil, from "Sart | | | 2007-07-30 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II | | en | | Of Companions and Flatterers. by Steele
The Story-Teller and His Art. by Steele
Sir Roger and the Widow. by Steele
The Coverley Family Portraits. by Steele
On Certain Symptoms of Greatness. by Steele
How to Be Happy tho Married. by Steele
Of the Shortness of Human Life. by Bolingbroke
Rules for the Study of History. by Bolingbroke
An Ancient English Country Seat. by Pope
His Compliments to Lady Mary. by Pope
How to Make an Epic Poem. by Pope
On Happiness in the Matrimonial State. by Montagu
Inoculation for the Smallpox. by Montagu
Of Good Manners, Dress and the World. by Chesterfield
Of Attentions to Ladies. by Chesterfield
Tom the Hero Enters the Stage; Partridge Sees Garrick at the Play. by Fielding from "Tom Jones"
Mr. Adams in a Political Light. by Fielding from "Joseph Andrews"
On Publishing His "Dictionary." by Johnson from the "Dictionary"
Pope and Dryden Compared. by Johnson from the "Lives of the Poets"
Letter to Chesterfield on the Completion of the "Dictionary." by Johnson from Boswell's "Life"
On the Advantages of Living in a Garret. by Johnson
The Character of Queen Elizabeth; The Defeat of the Armada. by Hume from the "History of England"
The First Principles of Government. by Hume
The Starling in Captivity; To Moulines with Maria. by Sterne from "The Sentimental Journey"
The Death of LeFevre; Passages from the Romance of My Uncle Toby and the Widow. by Sterne from "Tristram Shandy"
Warwick Castle. by Gray
To His Friend Mason on the Death of Mason's Mother. by Gray
On His Own Writings. by Gray
His Friendship for Bonstetten. by Gray
Hogarth. by Walpole from the "Anecdotes of Painting in England"
The War in America. by Walpole
The Death of George II. by Walpole
The Chimney Swallow. by White from "The Natural History of Selborne"
Of Ambition Misdirected. by Smith from the "Theory of Moral Sentiments"
The Advantages of a Division of Labor. b | | | 2007-06-08 |