Samuel Johnson and the Life of WritingHarcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971 - 303 pages |
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Page 175
... Idler 11 also insists that any connection between seasons and literary fecundity is sheer nonsense . What , then , should be our reaction when , turning to Rambler 80 , we hear a voice earnestly telling us that " To the men of study and ...
... Idler 11 also insists that any connection between seasons and literary fecundity is sheer nonsense . What , then , should be our reaction when , turning to Rambler 80 , we hear a voice earnestly telling us that " To the men of study and ...
Page 218
... Idler 41 , written a week after her death . Here Johnson attains some " distance " and objectivity by choosing to write in the form of a letter to " Mr. Idler . " He then works gradually , by means of general moral observations , to his ...
... Idler 41 , written a week after her death . Here Johnson attains some " distance " and objectivity by choosing to write in the form of a letter to " Mr. Idler . " He then works gradually , by means of general moral observations , to his ...
Page 251
... Idler they have passed weeks , months , and years which are now no longer in their power ; that an end must in time be put to everything great as to everything little ; that to life must come its last hour , and to this system of being ...
... Idler they have passed weeks , months , and years which are now no longer in their power ; that an end must in time be put to everything great as to everything little ; that to life must come its last hour , and to this system of being ...
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