The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
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... Life of Johnson and in an extraordinary recent book by Paul Fussell , Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing . ... a young Grub Street hack writer , Johnson worked at every conceivable menial assignment for Edward Cave , editor of ...
... Life of Johnson and in an extraordinary recent book by Paul Fussell , Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing . ... a young Grub Street hack writer , Johnson worked at every conceivable menial assignment for Edward Cave , editor of ...
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D. To write the Life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endowments , or his various works , has been equalled by few in any age , is an arduous ...
D. To write the Life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endowments , or his various works , has been equalled by few in any age , is an arduous ...
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If we are to understand everything that Johnson's literary performance has to tell us , we must pause for a moment here to consider some of the facts of writing . Like " the facts of life , ” they may seem at first glance a little ...
If we are to understand everything that Johnson's literary performance has to tell us , we must pause for a moment here to consider some of the facts of writing . Like " the facts of life , ” they may seem at first glance a little ...
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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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