Samuel JohnsonHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977 - 646페이지 In this biography - a work that won three of the most prestigious literary prizes this country offers - W. Jackson Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's awesome intellect and fueled his prodigious output. The first great modern biography of Johnson, it confirms that his statements and judgments on literature, politics, religion, behavior - on all human experience - are as relevant in our age as when they were first uttered. This new edition brings a modern classic back into print and includes a new preface from the author. |
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... half blind and half deaf , he knew he could never be completely of that world . He may not have wanted to be completely of that world - he had found this out as another part of him had begun to assert itself at the table of Gilbert ...
... half blind and half deaf , he knew he could never be completely of that world . He may not have wanted to be completely of that world - he had found this out as another part of him had begun to assert itself at the table of Gilbert ...
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... half mocking himself in the title . Soon the texts and notes printed up by William Strahan , the printer , began to lie around in his rooms without much being done either to alter or to add to them . Yet occasionally they were at least ...
... half mocking himself in the title . Soon the texts and notes printed up by William Strahan , the printer , began to lie around in his rooms without much being done either to alter or to add to them . Yet occasionally they were at least ...
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... half sabotage , the whole thing . Inevitably his self - defeating loss of the list of subscribers - when ordinarily he would have passed on the names to the publishers for safekeeping - disturbed him in a way com- pletely at odds with ...
... half sabotage , the whole thing . Inevitably his self - defeating loss of the list of subscribers - when ordinarily he would have passed on the names to the publishers for safekeeping - disturbed him in a way com- pletely at odds with ...
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