Fresh Reflections on Samuel Johnson: Essays in CriticismPrem Nath This volume of criticism seeks to refresh discussion of Samuel Johnson. |
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... happiness " ( 4.238 ) . Like the hero of Pomfret's " The Choice , " a poem whose amazing popularity Johnson respected ( Lives 1.302 ) , Hymenaeus has pursued a kind of stasis : his object is " the calm of domestic happiness , " not the ...
... happiness " ( 4.238 ) . Like the hero of Pomfret's " The Choice , " a poem whose amazing popularity Johnson respected ( Lives 1.302 ) , Hymenaeus has pursued a kind of stasis : his object is " the calm of domestic happiness , " not the ...
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... happiness decreed to our present state , " is so full of foreboding . They consider themselves " less deceived " in " connubial hopes " than most . They realize that " peevishness and discontent must come at last , " but their time ...
... happiness decreed to our present state , " is so full of foreboding . They consider themselves " less deceived " in " connubial hopes " than most . They realize that " peevishness and discontent must come at last , " but their time ...
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... happier as kinder . " It is this latter love that leads to faith , more or less in the way Pope suggests at the end of the Essay on Man ( on happiness ) : [ Man ] knows where Faith , Law , Morals all began . All end , in Love of God and ...
... happier as kinder . " It is this latter love that leads to faith , more or less in the way Pope suggests at the end of the Essay on Man ( on happiness ) : [ Man ] knows where Faith , Law , Morals all began . All end , in Love of God and ...
Contents
Johnson and Critical Expectation | 13 |
Samuel Johnsons Ambivalent View of Classical Pastoral | 31 |
Johnsons Historical Reviews | 63 |
Copyright | |
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