Practical Modern English, Volume 3University of London Press, 1949 |
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Evelyne White. Chapter 12 DR . JOHNSON AND THE AGE OF TRANSITION SAMUEL JOHNSON ( 1709-1784 ) was born at the beginning of a century which was perhaps no less notable for the literary changes it portrayed than for the sharp contrasts in ...
Evelyne White. Chapter 12 DR . JOHNSON AND THE AGE OF TRANSITION SAMUEL JOHNSON ( 1709-1784 ) was born at the beginning of a century which was perhaps no less notable for the literary changes it portrayed than for the sharp contrasts in ...
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... Johnson said . He did not wait for him to speak ; he plied him with all kinds of questions and everything he heard went down in either his memory or notebook . Con- sequently his Life of Johnson is the most complete biography in the ...
... Johnson said . He did not wait for him to speak ; he plied him with all kinds of questions and everything he heard went down in either his memory or notebook . Con- sequently his Life of Johnson is the most complete biography in the ...
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... Johnson kept all his rough words for Shakespeare , Milton , and Gray . " Considering the comparative paucity of Johnson's works— the poems ; Rasselas , the prose romance ; Irene , the un- successful play ; the political and literary ...
... Johnson kept all his rough words for Shakespeare , Milton , and Gray . " Considering the comparative paucity of Johnson's works— the poems ; Rasselas , the prose romance ; Irene , the un- successful play ; the political and literary ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE ANGLOSAXONS | 9 |
THE NORMAN CONQUEST AND AFTER | 18 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER THE FATHER OF ENGLISH POETRY | 24 |
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