Samuel Johnson and His TimesBatsford, 1962 - 128 страници |
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... tell ' , Johnson says , its sad truths , to point a moral and adorn a tale . This is the medieval view of history , not as a rational explana- tion of growth and change , but as a tragic catalogue of the splendours and follies of the ...
... tell ' , Johnson says , its sad truths , to point a moral and adorn a tale . This is the medieval view of history , not as a rational explana- tion of growth and change , but as a tragic catalogue of the splendours and follies of the ...
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... tell them . In Cairo the professor who lectures on Stoicism is no better able to bear the loss of a child than anyone else . They try the pastoral life , but the shepherds are boorish and disgusting ; the Golden Age of the poets is a ...
... tell them . In Cairo the professor who lectures on Stoicism is no better able to bear the loss of a child than anyone else . They try the pastoral life , but the shepherds are boorish and disgusting ; the Golden Age of the poets is a ...
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... tell the noblest you , which a Scotchman ever sees , is prospect the high road that leads him to England ! Another rhetorical device is the neat antithesis of Augustan poetry , as when he said of a lady writer who had taken to using ...
... tell the noblest you , which a Scotchman ever sees , is prospect the high road that leads him to England ! Another rhetorical device is the neat antithesis of Augustan poetry , as when he said of a lady writer who had taken to using ...
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Acknowledgment | 6 |
LICHFIELD 17091737 | 14 |
LONDON Lexicographer 17461756 | 38 |
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