In Mind of Johnson: A Study of Johnson the Rambler |
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... felt as no safeguard against insanity . To Cowper at his most desperate it was as if the whole world might be right in its own terms , but those terms were unprovably yet wholly inapplicable . This is the deepest sense in which Cowper ...
... felt as no safeguard against insanity . To Cowper at his most desperate it was as if the whole world might be right in its own terms , but those terms were unprovably yet wholly inapplicable . This is the deepest sense in which Cowper ...
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... felt himself to be an in - between man : he knew too much , for he knew that he knew too little . This is to know limitation very well , but very equivocally . Equivocally , for this reason . It was not as if Johnson felt securely ...
... felt himself to be an in - between man : he knew too much , for he knew that he knew too little . This is to know limitation very well , but very equivocally . Equivocally , for this reason . It was not as if Johnson felt securely ...
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... felt as unjust as one level and yet also felt as proper at another , that the man should be suffering so . It would take the complexity of a Rambler sentence to explain and hold together as one thing the thought that in one form or ...
... felt as unjust as one level and yet also felt as proper at another , that the man should be suffering so . It would take the complexity of a Rambler sentence to explain and hold together as one thing the thought that in one form or ...
Contents
Almost every man will be found to have enlisted | 10 |
Discoursing like an angel living like a | 21 |
The System of Life | 42 |
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