Le docteur Johnson, critique littéraire (1709-1784): essai de biographie psychologique |
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... work must be estimated by its use ; it is not enough that a Dictionary delights the critick , unless , at the same time , it instructs the learner . ( 26 ) Cf. The Plan of an English Dictionary ( V. 20-21 ) : A dictionary by which the ...
... work must be estimated by its use ; it is not enough that a Dictionary delights the critick , unless , at the same time , it instructs the learner . ( 26 ) Cf. The Plan of an English Dictionary ( V. 20-21 ) : A dictionary by which the ...
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... work of art and to substitute something in its place . Page 8 All criticism tends to shift the interest from the work of art to something else . ( 22 ) Ibid . , pp . 25-26 : The pedantry of our own day has borrowed « conventions >> from ...
... work of art and to substitute something in its place . Page 8 All criticism tends to shift the interest from the work of art to something else . ( 22 ) Ibid . , pp . 25-26 : The pedantry of our own day has borrowed « conventions >> from ...
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... work upon which he then happened to be employed ( p . 440 ) . On en peut méditer la conclusion : The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate , nor dignify by partial representations , but to hold out the light of reason , WHATEVER IT ...
... work upon which he then happened to be employed ( p . 440 ) . On en peut méditer la conclusion : The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate , nor dignify by partial representations , but to hold out the light of reason , WHATEVER IT ...
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