Samuel Johnson and His TimesArco Publishing Company, 1963 - 128 страници |
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Matthew John Caldwell Hodgart. I LICHFIELD 1709-1737 ' A MIND of large general powers , accidentally directed to some parti- cular direction ' : such is Samuel Johnson's description of ' genius ' . Johnson's own mind , however ...
Matthew John Caldwell Hodgart. I LICHFIELD 1709-1737 ' A MIND of large general powers , accidentally directed to some parti- cular direction ' : such is Samuel Johnson's description of ' genius ' . Johnson's own mind , however ...
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... mind is an even greater mystery than the scientific mind , but it appears that Johnson possessed both . He told Boswell , ' I ought to have been a lawyer ' ; and when another friend said that he might have become Lord Chancellor , he ...
... mind is an even greater mystery than the scientific mind , but it appears that Johnson possessed both . He told Boswell , ' I ought to have been a lawyer ' ; and when another friend said that he might have become Lord Chancellor , he ...
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... mind can only repose on the stability of truth ' ; and Shakespeare ' is above all writers , at least above all modern writers , the poet of nature ' . This is in fact a naturalistic position , which Johnson always invokes whenever the ...
... mind can only repose on the stability of truth ' ; and Shakespeare ' is above all writers , at least above all modern writers , the poet of nature ' . This is in fact a naturalistic position , which Johnson always invokes whenever the ...
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