Samuel Johnson and His TimesArco Publishing Company, 1963 - 128 страници |
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... literature which are read today , Johnson says comparatively little . The greatest prose artist of his contemporaries was Gibbon ; but Boswell is so bitter about Gibbon for personal reasons that it is impossible to find out what Johnson ...
... literature which are read today , Johnson says comparatively little . The greatest prose artist of his contemporaries was Gibbon ; but Boswell is so bitter about Gibbon for personal reasons that it is impossible to find out what Johnson ...
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... literature . It is striking that the Lives of the Poets is still read keenly today , not only by pious Johnsonians but by ordinary students of literature : this is because Johnson tells them more in a short space than any other critic ...
... literature . It is striking that the Lives of the Poets is still read keenly today , not only by pious Johnsonians but by ordinary students of literature : this is because Johnson tells them more in a short space than any other critic ...
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... Literature ' . This is a genre distinct from that of the proverb , which is a product of folk - lore and offers the practical teaching of peasant culture . Wisdom Literature springs from a more advanced civiliza- tion , and is written ...
... Literature ' . This is a genre distinct from that of the proverb , which is a product of folk - lore and offers the practical teaching of peasant culture . Wisdom Literature springs from a more advanced civiliza- tion , and is written ...
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