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Page x
... criticism is eager to fall upon ; but , after all , a footnote will set it right at once . And Johnson himself never valued his work on the purely formal estimate ; he was never , as Boswell records , in any great hurry to alter a date ...
... criticism is eager to fall upon ; but , after all , a footnote will set it right at once . And Johnson himself never valued his work on the purely formal estimate ; he was never , as Boswell records , in any great hurry to alter a date ...
Page xiii
... criticism , to begin with , were to ' tend to the promotion of piety ' : here , as so often elsewhere , we have the old conflict between art and morals unflinch- ingly faced , and art handed over , scrip and scrippage , into the service ...
... criticism , to begin with , were to ' tend to the promotion of piety ' : here , as so often elsewhere , we have the old conflict between art and morals unflinch- ingly faced , and art handed over , scrip and scrippage , into the service ...
Page 288
... criticism , written when he was yet a timorous candidate for reputation , and therefore laboured with that diligence which he might allow himself somewhat to remit , when his name gave sanction to his positions , and his awe of the ...
... criticism , written when he was yet a timorous candidate for reputation , and therefore laboured with that diligence which he might allow himself somewhat to remit , when his name gave sanction to his positions , and his awe of the ...
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