Samuel Johnson and the Life of WritingHarcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971 - 303 pages |
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... W. K. Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks's Literary Criticism : A Short History ) ; new editions of Chaucer and of Fairfax's translation of Tasso ; editions of Oldham or of Roscommon or of Claudian ; " Lives of the Philosophers , written with a ...
... W. K. Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks's Literary Criticism : A Short History ) ; new editions of Chaucer and of Fairfax's translation of Tasso ; editions of Oldham or of Roscommon or of Claudian ; " Lives of the Philosophers , written with a ...
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... W. K. Wimsatt has noticed , Boerhaave , deeply religious and orthodox , antagonistic to the philoso- phies of Hobbes and Spinoza , may well have been something like a hero for the young Johnson , such an exponent of rhetoric as well as ...
... W. K. Wimsatt has noticed , Boerhaave , deeply religious and orthodox , antagonistic to the philoso- phies of Hobbes and Spinoza , may well have been something like a hero for the young Johnson , such an exponent of rhetoric as well as ...
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... W. K. Wimsatt invites us to consider what Johnson was doing : Try to imagine Johnson at his task of single - handed reading for the Dictionary , and you will see , or feel , that the essential and operative principles in the enterprise ...
... W. K. Wimsatt invites us to consider what Johnson was doing : Try to imagine Johnson at his task of single - handed reading for the Dictionary , and you will see , or feel , that the essential and operative principles in the enterprise ...
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