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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... Human Wishes may have fetched Johnson forth more complexly and from deeper down for the simple reason that it was poetry . In fact , The Vanity of Human Wishes has a denser , more active texture than would be tolerable in essayistic ...
... Human Wishes may have fetched Johnson forth more complexly and from deeper down for the simple reason that it was poetry . In fact , The Vanity of Human Wishes has a denser , more active texture than would be tolerable in essayistic ...
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... human situation , of the frightening omnipresence of egotism , greed , and envy ; and , above all , of what he called the " treachery of the human heart " in our almost infinite capacity to delude ourselves ( while imagining we are ...
... human situation , of the frightening omnipresence of egotism , greed , and envy ; and , above all , of what he called the " treachery of the human heart " in our almost infinite capacity to delude ourselves ( while imagining we are ...
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... human imagination and human desires , when blocked or repressed , begin to grow claws and start to tunnel their way out into the various forms of envy and hostility , while at the same time deluding us into thinking we are standing up ...
... human imagination and human desires , when blocked or repressed , begin to grow claws and start to tunnel their way out into the various forms of envy and hostility , while at the same time deluding us into thinking we are standing up ...
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First Years at School | 18 |
The Lichfield Upper Grammar School | 28 |
Cornelius Ford and | 45 |
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