Samuel Johnson and His TimesBatsford, 1962 - 128 страници |
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... imagination , the possibility of mania ; nearly all his references to Swift in conversation or writing show an aggressive hostility that comes from fear ; and this gives his final couplet on old age its peculiar tremor of dread : From ...
... imagination , the possibility of mania ; nearly all his references to Swift in conversation or writing show an aggressive hostility that comes from fear ; and this gives his final couplet on old age its peculiar tremor of dread : From ...
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... imagination ' made Johnson fear his own poetic genius : that way madness lay . Potentially a great poet , he deliberately rejected the gifts of imagination which the Muses , daughters of memory , had handed to him . Fearing all his life ...
... imagination ' made Johnson fear his own poetic genius : that way madness lay . Potentially a great poet , he deliberately rejected the gifts of imagination which the Muses , daughters of memory , had handed to him . Fearing all his life ...
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... imagination with all the gloom and grandeur of Siberian solitude ' . But the river was too low to be spectacular , and we were left to exercise our thoughts , by endeavouring to conceive the effect of a thousand streams poured from the ...
... imagination with all the gloom and grandeur of Siberian solitude ' . But the river was too low to be spectacular , and we were left to exercise our thoughts , by endeavouring to conceive the effect of a thousand streams poured from the ...
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