Samuel JohnsonHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977 - 646 страници In this biography - a work that won three of the most prestigious literary prizes this country offers - W. Jackson Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's awesome intellect and fueled his prodigious output. The first great modern biography of Johnson, it confirms that his statements and judgments on literature, politics, religion, behavior - on all human experience - are as relevant in our age as when they were first uttered. This new edition brings a modern classic back into print and includes a new preface from the author. |
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... experience and reflection . The best of them - in fact , substantial parts of the majority of them - are saturated with thought to a degree unexceeded by any writer of English prose since Francis Bacon . Boswell was not expressing ...
... experience and reflection . The best of them - in fact , substantial parts of the majority of them - are saturated with thought to a degree unexceeded by any writer of English prose since Francis Bacon . Boswell was not expressing ...
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... experience in so many different ways . We are speaking of " experience " in the vivid Latin sense as something genuinely won the hard way - ex periculo , " from danger " or " from peril . " ( From the Greek peran , to " pass through ...
... experience in so many different ways . We are speaking of " experience " in the vivid Latin sense as something genuinely won the hard way - ex periculo , " from danger " or " from peril . " ( From the Greek peran , to " pass through ...
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... experience and richness of expression . It also acted as a challenge . But the value of haste was always greater when the subject was such that he was en- couraged to storm the main gate of human experience without stop- ping to ...
... experience and richness of expression . It also acted as a challenge . But the value of haste was always greater when the subject was such that he was en- couraged to storm the main gate of human experience without stop- ping to ...
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First Years at School | 18 |
The Lichfield Upper Grammar School | 28 |
Cornelius Ford and | 45 |
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