The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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Page 134
... Johnson , and those who have done so since have consciously or unconsciously imitated him . Fortunately Johnson himself could write in another style too , and the vigorous English of the Lives of the Poets is neither so Latinised nor so ...
... Johnson , and those who have done so since have consciously or unconsciously imitated him . Fortunately Johnson himself could write in another style too , and the vigorous English of the Lives of the Poets is neither so Latinised nor so ...
Page 136
... Johnson's place in literature would be far below that of Addison and Steele , and it is not clear that it would be as high as that of Fielding . Even apart from the Tom Jones essays there are papers in The Champion and The Covent ...
... Johnson's place in literature would be far below that of Addison and Steele , and it is not clear that it would be as high as that of Fielding . Even apart from the Tom Jones essays there are papers in The Champion and The Covent ...
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Hugh Walker. So great was the popularity of this periodical that , according to Johnson , its proprietor , Cave , used to sell ten thousand copies ; while Hawkins declares that , during the period when Johnson was contributing those ...
Hugh Walker. So great was the popularity of this periodical that , according to Johnson , its proprietor , Cave , used to sell ten thousand copies ; while Hawkins declares that , during the period when Johnson was contributing those ...
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