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... language , and language is made by the people . A language is a collective act of creation which must always dwarf the individual act . Hence Johnson's deep populist streak . He never goes against the verdict of the ordinary ' reader ...
... language , and language is made by the people . A language is a collective act of creation which must always dwarf the individual act . Hence Johnson's deep populist streak . He never goes against the verdict of the ordinary ' reader ...
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... language , the form of our metre , and , above all , of the change which two thous- and years have made in the modes of life and the habits of thought . Virgil wrote in a language of the same general fabric with that of Homer , in ...
... language , the form of our metre , and , above all , of the change which two thous- and years have made in the modes of life and the habits of thought . Virgil wrote in a language of the same general fabric with that of Homer , in ...
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... language is laboured into harshness . The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence . Double , double ... language is unlike the language of other poets . In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur GRAY 459.
... language is laboured into harshness . The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence . Double , double ... language is unlike the language of other poets . In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur GRAY 459.
Contents
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE | 43 |
Note on the Text and Acknowledgment | 58 |
EARLY PERIODICAL CRITICISM | 59 |
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