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... idea of writing as a form of practical advice about how to live . In Chapter One I show how Johnson's method functions at the level of ' reminding ' : his general style situates itself between his own memory and that of his readers ...
... idea of writing as a form of practical advice about how to live . In Chapter One I show how Johnson's method functions at the level of ' reminding ' : his general style situates itself between his own memory and that of his readers ...
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... ideas - as two further examples may show . Chapter x consists of Imlac's magnificent dissertation on poetry , containing his idea of the Poet : " The business of a poet is to examine , not the individual , but the species ... He must ...
... ideas - as two further examples may show . Chapter x consists of Imlac's magnificent dissertation on poetry , containing his idea of the Poet : " The business of a poet is to examine , not the individual , but the species ... He must ...
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... idea . Sometimes in letters , he says , you can see it for all that : " The original Idea is laid down in its simple purity , and all the supervenient conceptions are spread over it in stratum super stratum , as they happen to be formed ...
... idea . Sometimes in letters , he says , you can see it for all that : " The original Idea is laid down in its simple purity , and all the supervenient conceptions are spread over it in stratum super stratum , as they happen to be formed ...
Contents
Almost every man will be found to have enlisted | 10 |
Discoursing like an angel living like a | 21 |
The System of Life | 42 |
Copyright | |
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