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Page 116
... final states of mind of the book's younger principals , is completely free from fantasy and imagination . In the case of the astronomer , far more than in the final choices of life by Rasselas , Nekayah and Pekuah , the sense of awesome ...
... final states of mind of the book's younger principals , is completely free from fantasy and imagination . In the case of the astronomer , far more than in the final choices of life by Rasselas , Nekayah and Pekuah , the sense of awesome ...
Page 152
... final stress of the Lives of the Poets lies with the theme of civilised progress ( or , in the case of Gray , decline ) . The praise Johnson accords to originality is at best ambiguous . With Young , the final emphasis is positive ...
... final stress of the Lives of the Poets lies with the theme of civilised progress ( or , in the case of Gray , decline ) . The praise Johnson accords to originality is at best ambiguous . With Young , the final emphasis is positive ...
Page 160
... final lines might even be suspected of irony : Heav'n , as its purest Gold , by Torture try'd , The Saint sustained , but the Woman dy'd . Johnson , however , is rapturous . ' I have always considered this as the most valuable of all ...
... final lines might even be suspected of irony : Heav'n , as its purest Gold , by Torture try'd , The Saint sustained , but the Woman dy'd . Johnson , however , is rapturous . ' I have always considered this as the most valuable of all ...
Contents
surly virtue and pleasing dream | 4 |
The Vanity of Human Wishes | 42 |
those that aspire to the name | 57 |
Copyright | |
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