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... imagination , imagination without reason . The achievement of friendship in such a world of splits and tangles means more than liking or choosing , and makes for a bit of that rare peace , found in just a part of the personal sphere ...
... imagination , imagination without reason . The achievement of friendship in such a world of splits and tangles means more than liking or choosing , and makes for a bit of that rare peace , found in just a part of the personal sphere ...
Page 106
... imagination , and Boswell himself must often have seemed to Johnson a prime example of the man who confused life with literature . But is Johnson's Realism both antagonistic to art and reductive of life , a symptom of the fear and ...
... imagination , and Boswell himself must often have seemed to Johnson a prime example of the man who confused life with literature . But is Johnson's Realism both antagonistic to art and reductive of life , a symptom of the fear and ...
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... Imagination is suddenly not the enemy of the practical but the very spirit of it . For imagination is part of the life - force of Johnson's practicality , but it is imagination worked within the human system of the moral essays rather ...
... Imagination is suddenly not the enemy of the practical but the very spirit of it . For imagination is part of the life - force of Johnson's practicality , but it is imagination worked within the human system of the moral essays rather ...
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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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