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Johnson said , he thought he had already done his part as a writer . “ I should have thought so too , ( said the King , ) if you had not written so well . ” — Johnson observed to me , upon this , that “ No man could have paid a ...
Johnson said , he thought he had already done his part as a writer . “ I should have thought so too , ( said the King , ) if you had not written so well . ” — Johnson observed to me , upon this , that “ No man could have paid a ...
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Gerald W. Chapman THE ORGANIC PREMISE IN BURKE'S THOUGHT John L. Mahoney ADDISON AND AKENSIDE : THE IMPACT OF. 14. Introduction to Johnson's Lives of the Poets ( Everyman edition , 2 vols .: London , 1925 ) , p . ix .
Gerald W. Chapman THE ORGANIC PREMISE IN BURKE'S THOUGHT John L. Mahoney ADDISON AND AKENSIDE : THE IMPACT OF. 14. Introduction to Johnson's Lives of the Poets ( Everyman edition , 2 vols .: London , 1925 ) , p . ix .
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His lifelong ambition to reconcile Plato and Aristotle in an indigenously English system amounts to little more , in one light , than his inability to rest in the notions taken in from contemporary German thought ( Platonic , organic ) ...
His lifelong ambition to reconcile Plato and Aristotle in an indigenously English system amounts to little more , in one light , than his inability to rest in the notions taken in from contemporary German thought ( Platonic , organic ) ...
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Contents
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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