The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to BurkeClarendon Press, 1965 - 314 pages |
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Page 96
... , seized the notion of propitious times and seasons for writing and used it in part to sanction his self- indulgence and to justify the paucity of his production . As , Johnson writes in the Life of Gray : ' [ 96 THE REDEMPTIVE WILL.
... , seized the notion of propitious times and seasons for writing and used it in part to sanction his self- indulgence and to justify the paucity of his production . As , Johnson writes in the Life of Gray : ' [ 96 THE REDEMPTIVE WILL.
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Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke Paul Fussell. Johnson writes in the Life of Gray : ' [ Gray ] had a notion not very peculiar , that he could not write but at certain times , or at happy moments ; a fantastick foppery , to which my ...
Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke Paul Fussell. Johnson writes in the Life of Gray : ' [ Gray ] had a notion not very peculiar , that he could not write but at certain times , or at happy moments ; a fantastick foppery , to which my ...
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... Johnson seems unable to contemplate any event involving children without experiencing intimations of mortality . Thus , writing Bennet Langton in 1772 to congratulate him on the birth of a son , he seems at the same time to glance just ...
... Johnson seems unable to contemplate any event involving children without experiencing intimations of mortality . Thus , writing Bennet Langton in 1772 to congratulate him on the birth of a son , he seems at the same time to glance just ...
Contents
The Human Attributes | 28 |
The Uniformity of Human Nature | 54 |
The Depravity of Man | 70 |
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