Dr. Samuel Johnson and James BoswellHarold Bloom Chelsea House Publishers, 1986 - 280 páginas A collection of critical essays on the works of Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, arranged in order of original publication. |
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... word is naturally or intrinsically meaner than another ; our opinion therefore of words , as of other things arbitrarily and capriciously established , depends wholly upon accident and custom . . . . Words become low by the oc- casions ...
... word is naturally or intrinsically meaner than another ; our opinion therefore of words , as of other things arbitrarily and capriciously established , depends wholly upon accident and custom . . . . Words become low by the oc- casions ...
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... words . The meaning of a word like " marling " depended on the usage of sailors , and hence was accidental , limited , insignificant , undignified , and incapable of modulation and extension . The meaning of a word like " adscititious ...
... words . The meaning of a word like " marling " depended on the usage of sailors , and hence was accidental , limited , insignificant , undignified , and incapable of modulation and extension . The meaning of a word like " adscititious ...
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... words ; it was a term of the most universal science , that of generality , Allerlei - Wissenschaft ; it was of the ... word which few might understand , but which all should understand - all who knew the roots of the language and could ...
... words ; it was a term of the most universal science , that of generality , Allerlei - Wissenschaft ; it was of the ... word which few might understand , but which all should understand - all who knew the roots of the language and could ...
Contenido
Johnsons Theory | 11 |
The Life of Boswell | 31 |
The Treachery of the Human Heart and the Stratagems of Defense | 45 |
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Account of Corsica appears Auchinleck biographer Boswell's called chapter character comic conclusion context conversation Cowley criticism Dictionary dignity Dryden effect English envy essay example experience fact feel fiction Frank Brady genius happiness Hebrides hero hope Human Wishes ideal ideas imagination Imlac island James Boswell John Johnsonian judgment Juvenal's kind knowledge language Laura Quinney Leopold Damrosch less literary literature Lives London Journal meaning Milton mind moral narrative nation nature never Paoli Paradise Lost passage pastoral pathos Paul Fussell Pekuah perhaps philosophic Plutarch poem poet poetical poetry political Pope Pope's portrait Preface present Rambler Rasselas reader reason reflection remarks Samuel Johnson satire Savage says Scotland Scots seems sense Shakespeare simply story style Swift things thought Thrale Tour to Corsica tragic truth Vanity of Human virtue W. K. Wimsatt Walter Jackson Bate words writing