Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... knew as much as he did at the age of fifty - three . An unusual memory enabled him to retain most of what he read , and in the pursuit of knowledge he had no choice . Not merely the facts , but what was more momentous for him , the ...
... knew as much as he did at the age of fifty - three . An unusual memory enabled him to retain most of what he read , and in the pursuit of knowledge he had no choice . Not merely the facts , but what was more momentous for him , the ...
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... knew well , and could speak of with a ready jest ; but the hunger of the spirit prowling outside the gates of Christ Church , where the feast of reason was spread 1 p . 31 . within , must have been hard indeed to bear , INTRODUCTION . xi.
... knew well , and could speak of with a ready jest ; but the hunger of the spirit prowling outside the gates of Christ Church , where the feast of reason was spread 1 p . 31 . within , must have been hard indeed to bear , INTRODUCTION . xi.
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... say that none but a blockhead ever wrote for anything but money , he well knew the dangers that beset that road to Fame , and shows what small 1 p . 70 . chance of excellence there is for an author who is INTRODUCTION . xxvii.
... say that none but a blockhead ever wrote for anything but money , he well knew the dangers that beset that road to Fame , and shows what small 1 p . 70 . chance of excellence there is for an author who is INTRODUCTION . xxvii.
Seite xxx
... knew well the essential constituents of style , as also its ultimate end . That is the best style which best conveys the writer's meaning to the reader's mind ; and by this rule Johnson will not be found to fail . Though many sentences ...
... knew well the essential constituents of style , as also its ultimate end . That is the best style which best conveys the writer's meaning to the reader's mind ; and by this rule Johnson will not be found to fail . Though many sentences ...
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... knew the facts of human life in general , and in his Lives of the Poets has written a biography of mankind . The edition followed in the Lives has been that of 1783 , the latest edition in Johnson's lifetime , and one in which he had ...
... knew the facts of human life in general , and in his Lives of the Poets has written a biography of mankind . The edition followed in the Lives has been that of 1783 , the latest edition in Johnson's lifetime , and one in which he had ...
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