The Life of Samuel JohnsonGeorg Olms Verlag - 639페이지 |
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... Poets . With Prefaces , Biographical and Critical is one of the three major eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century anthologies of English poetry . This ambitious work is far more comprehensive in its treatment of earlier literature ...
... Poets . With Prefaces , Biographical and Critical is one of the three major eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century anthologies of English poetry . This ambitious work is far more comprehensive in its treatment of earlier literature ...
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... poets included in his collection ( e . g . , Blair , Grainger , Moore , Smart ) . But only one , the bio- graphy of Johnson , was sufficiently long and important to be published as a separate volume without the poems . The second ...
... poets included in his collection ( e . g . , Blair , Grainger , Moore , Smart ) . But only one , the bio- graphy of Johnson , was sufficiently long and important to be published as a separate volume without the poems . The second ...
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... Poets , for which a biographical preface was required . The earlier volumes of the collection included dozens of such prefaces , written with workmanlike proficiency but seldom insightful or brilliant . Anderson's method in these brief ...
... Poets , for which a biographical preface was required . The earlier volumes of the collection included dozens of such prefaces , written with workmanlike proficiency but seldom insightful or brilliant . Anderson's method in these brief ...
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... Poets . The addition of an analysis of Johnson's character recalls the methodology of the longer Lives of the Poets , while the inclusion of " the testimonies " of other authors suggests that Anderson wants to give an impartial view of ...
... Poets . The addition of an analysis of Johnson's character recalls the methodology of the longer Lives of the Poets , while the inclusion of " the testimonies " of other authors suggests that Anderson wants to give an impartial view of ...
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... Poets . Anderson's suggestion that his work plays a correc- tive role in early Johnsonian studies is not without precedent in literary biography . Other contemporary biographers attempt it when their subject has been the center of ...
... Poets . Anderson's suggestion that his work plays a correc- tive role in early Johnsonian studies is not without precedent in literary biography . Other contemporary biographers attempt it when their subject has been the center of ...
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542 페이지 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
298 페이지 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
212 페이지 - Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
211 페이지 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
542 페이지 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
211 페이지 - TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. "Mv LORD, February 7, 1775. " 1 have been lately informed, by the proprietor of "The World," that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
30 페이지 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.