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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... sense of the way in which possessions , like attain- ments , not only pall but bring with them new burdens of anxiety , while also depriving us of a scapegoat to blame for our dissatisfactions ; or , if not some prior sense , it ...
... sense of the way in which possessions , like attain- ments , not only pall but bring with them new burdens of anxiety , while also depriving us of a scapegoat to blame for our dissatisfactions ; or , if not some prior sense , it ...
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... sense of " relief . " This is especially the secret of the appeal that Johnson's moral writing has begun to make to ... sense as something genuinely won the hard way - ex periculo , " from danger " or " from peril . " ( From the Greek ...
... sense of " relief . " This is especially the secret of the appeal that Johnson's moral writing has begun to make to ... sense as something genuinely won the hard way - ex periculo , " from danger " or " from peril . " ( From the Greek ...
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... sense this even in casual phrasing . A typical example is the close of the Life of Gray , when he turns to the famous Elegy : " I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary ...
... sense this even in casual phrasing . A typical example is the close of the Life of Gray , when he turns to the famous Elegy : " I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary ...
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