Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in CriticismPrem Nath This volume of criticism seeks to refresh discussion of Samuel Johnson. |
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... experience , the pattern of that experience is not always as pacific and decorous as that which the polite would elect . Nevertheless , Johnson has been selected as a model on many occasions , both by professional writers and by ...
... experience , the pattern of that experience is not always as pacific and decorous as that which the polite would elect . Nevertheless , Johnson has been selected as a model on many occasions , both by professional writers and by ...
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... experience and sees in that split a replaying of the eighteenth century's own confrontation between self - sufficient rationalism and the claims of real human experience.7 While contemporary rationalists vainly seek to subsume their ...
... experience and sees in that split a replaying of the eighteenth century's own confrontation between self - sufficient rationalism and the claims of real human experience.7 While contemporary rationalists vainly seek to subsume their ...
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... experience of a toothache : A Tooth's minutest Nerve let Anguish seize , Swift kindred Fibres catch ! ( so frail our Ease ! ) Pinch'd , pierc'd , and torn , enflam'd , and unassuag'd , They smart , and swell , and throb , and shoot ...
... experience of a toothache : A Tooth's minutest Nerve let Anguish seize , Swift kindred Fibres catch ! ( so frail our Ease ! ) Pinch'd , pierc'd , and torn , enflam'd , and unassuag'd , They smart , and swell , and throb , and shoot ...
Contents
Johnson and Critical Expectation | 13 |
Samuel Johnsons Ambivalent View of Classical Pastoral | 31 |
Johnsons Historical Reviews | 63 |
Copyright | |
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