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... common reader . ' The long years of work on the Dictionary had driven one lesson deeply into Johnson's mind : the common user of language , the articulate man in the street , has a creativity and a wisdom that must always over - arch ...
... common reader . ' The long years of work on the Dictionary had driven one lesson deeply into Johnson's mind : the common user of language , the articulate man in the street , has a creativity and a wisdom that must always over - arch ...
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... common use makes it more proper to gain attention , and more fit for action and dialogue . Such verse we make when we are writing prose ; we make such verse in common conversation . I know not whether this praise is rigorously just ...
... common use makes it more proper to gain attention , and more fit for action and dialogue . Such verse we make when we are writing prose ; we make such verse in common conversation . I know not whether this praise is rigorously just ...
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... common words and common things ; he is neither required to mount elevations , nor to explore profundities ; his passage is always on a level , along solid ground , without asperities , without obstruction . This easy and safe conveyance ...
... common words and common things ; he is neither required to mount elevations , nor to explore profundities ; his passage is always on a level , along solid ground , without asperities , without obstruction . This easy and safe conveyance ...
Contents
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE | 43 |
Note on the Text and Acknowledgment | 58 |
EARLY PERIODICAL CRITICISM | 59 |
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action admiration Aeneid ancient appears attention beauties blank verse censure character comedy common composition considered Cowley criticism death delight dialogue diction dignity diligence drama Dryden easily easy edition effect elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence exhibit expression eyes F. R. Leavis Falstaff fancy faults genius give harmony heaven hexameter Hudibras human Iliad images imagination imitation Johnson judgment kind King knowledge labour language learning lines literary literature lived Lycidas Macbeth Metaphysical poets Milton mind moral nature never numbers observed opinion original Othello Paradise Lost passages passions pastoral perhaps play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise produced reader reason remarks rhyme Samson Samson Agonistes Samuel Johnson says scarcely scenes seems sense sentiments Shakespeare sometimes sound supposed syllables thee things thou thought tion tragedy translation truth versification Virgil virtue Warburton words writer written