The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... Dr Johnson . When English prose recovered simplicity with Hazlitt , the Shelley of the letters and Charles Lamb at his best , it lost it again with De Quincey , Carlyle , Meredith and Walter Pater . It is obvious that the grand style is ...
... Dr Johnson . When English prose recovered simplicity with Hazlitt , the Shelley of the letters and Charles Lamb at his best , it lost it again with De Quincey , Carlyle , Meredith and Walter Pater . It is obvious that the grand style is ...
Page 37
... Dr Johnson wrote with delight , for he had good sense , charm and wit . No one could have written better if he had not wilfully set himself to write in the grand style . He knew good English when he saw it . No critic has praised ...
... Dr Johnson wrote with delight , for he had good sense , charm and wit . No one could have written better if he had not wilfully set himself to write in the grand style . He knew good English when he saw it . No critic has praised ...
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... Dr Johnson remarked long ago that it is much more easy to form dialogues than to contrive adventures . Looking through the old notebooks in which from [ 110 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... Dr Johnson remarked long ago that it is much more easy to form dialogues than to contrive adventures . Looking through the old notebooks in which from [ 110 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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