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... literary critic that we must regard Johnson , although , of course and at the very least , he is that . But he is more , much more . Even in his literary criticism , he is a critic of life , in the highest and Arnoldian sense of that ...
... literary critic that we must regard Johnson , although , of course and at the very least , he is that . But he is more , much more . Even in his literary criticism , he is a critic of life , in the highest and Arnoldian sense of that ...
Page viii
... literary and intel- lectual era , and no one better than Johnson himself was aware of this grand pattern of literary history . Consequently , The Lives of the English Poets con- sciously trace a kind of arc , emerging from the ob ...
... literary and intel- lectual era , and no one better than Johnson himself was aware of this grand pattern of literary history . Consequently , The Lives of the English Poets con- sciously trace a kind of arc , emerging from the ob ...
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... literary zeal , that the great men , who on other occasions practised all the violence of opposition , would emu- late each other in their encouragement of a poet who delighted all , and by whom none had been offended . With those hopes ...
... literary zeal , that the great men , who on other occasions practised all the violence of opposition , would emu- late each other in their encouragement of a poet who delighted all , and by whom none had been offended . With those hopes ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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