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Samuel Johnson · James Boswell 1709-1784 1740-1795 > Few English writers have fared so well with their biographers as has Samuel Johnson . In spite of the Victorian image , fostered in large part by Macaulay , of an awkward , unseemly ...
Samuel Johnson · James Boswell 1709-1784 1740-1795 > Few English writers have fared so well with their biographers as has Samuel Johnson . In spite of the Victorian image , fostered in large part by Macaulay , of an awkward , unseemly ...
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Johnson is dead . — Let us go to the next best : —there is nobody ; —no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson . ” It is a compliment indeed , but it cannot match in detail and sensitivity Boswell's own remarks toward the end of ...
Johnson is dead . — Let us go to the next best : —there is nobody ; —no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson . ” It is a compliment indeed , but it cannot match in detail and sensitivity Boswell's own remarks toward the end of ...
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And when considering Johnson on Lycidas , we must remember that his depreciation of that poem occurs within a context of critical praise of Milton's epic achievement so lavish and enthusiastic that it seems hardly to belong to the ...
And when considering Johnson on Lycidas , we must remember that his depreciation of that poem occurs within a context of critical praise of Milton's epic achievement so lavish and enthusiastic that it seems hardly to belong to the ...
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General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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