Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... Johnson Burke Metaphysical and Ethical Writers Historical Writers : -Hume . - Robertson . - Gibbon Political Economy . - Theology , Criticism , and Belles Lettres Progress of Science Page • 158 • 160 • 167 • 170 · 171 · 174 • 177 181 ...
... Johnson Burke Metaphysical and Ethical Writers Historical Writers : -Hume . - Robertson . - Gibbon Political Economy . - Theology , Criticism , and Belles Lettres Progress of Science Page • 158 • 160 • 167 • 170 · 171 · 174 • 177 181 ...
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... Johnson , whom he eventually married ) , were none of them printed till after , some of them not till long after , his death , which took place in 1745 . 66 " O thou ! " exclaims his friend Pope , he was . " whatever title please thine ...
... Johnson , whom he eventually married ) , were none of them printed till after , some of them not till long after , his death , which took place in 1745 . 66 " O thou ! " exclaims his friend Pope , he was . " whatever title please thine ...
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... Johnson ; but the politics of the author may be supposed to have blinded or mollified the one critic , and his piety the other ; at least the only thing an ordinary reader will be apt to discover in this his chef d'œuvre , that is not ...
... Johnson ; but the politics of the author may be supposed to have blinded or mollified the one critic , and his piety the other ; at least the only thing an ordinary reader will be apt to discover in this his chef d'œuvre , that is not ...
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... Johnson without a suspicion of their being other than a true his- tory , so some Irish bishop was found with faith enough to believe in Gulliver's Travels , although not a little amazed by some things stated in the book . But this ...
... Johnson without a suspicion of their being other than a true his- tory , so some Irish bishop was found with faith enough to believe in Gulliver's Travels , although not a little amazed by some things stated in the book . But this ...
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... Johnson has declared that " a more sublime or elegant funeral poem is not to be found in the whole compass of English literature . " Steele on the other hand has de- nounced it as being nothing more than " prose in rhyme . " And it must ...
... Johnson has declared that " a more sublime or elegant funeral poem is not to be found in the whole compass of English literature . " Steele on the other hand has de- nounced it as being nothing more than " prose in rhyme . " And it must ...
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