The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... writing , and a know - all . But they dared not tell him in so many words , because Johnson always had a ready ... writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay , but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl " ( 109 , p . 183 ) . I ...
... writing , and a know - all . But they dared not tell him in so many words , because Johnson always had a ready ... writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay , but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl " ( 109 , p . 183 ) . I ...
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... writer as he was as a man ? This fun- damental question , too , has never been answered . It is the question of the difference between Johnson as an author and Johnson as a man that has been the direct reason for writing this book . But ...
... writer as he was as a man ? This fun- damental question , too , has never been answered . It is the question of the difference between Johnson as an author and Johnson as a man that has been the direct reason for writing this book . But ...
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... writing was inconvenient to him ; for whenever he wrote , he was obliged to hold the paper close to his face " . It is surprising , then , that Johnson disliked writing and prefered to speak ? The effort of writing must have been ...
... writing was inconvenient to him ; for whenever he wrote , he was obliged to hold the paper close to his face " . It is surprising , then , that Johnson disliked writing and prefered to speak ? The effort of writing must have been ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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