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Colin Nicholas Manlove. 12 Johnson We speak of Johnson as an Augustan , yet in both The Vanity of Human Wishes and Rasselas he is concerned not to condemn the nonconformist characters who make the central interest , but to portray the ...
Colin Nicholas Manlove. 12 Johnson We speak of Johnson as an Augustan , yet in both The Vanity of Human Wishes and Rasselas he is concerned not to condemn the nonconformist characters who make the central interest , but to portray the ...
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... Johnson's wish for detachment is the same kind of aspiration as drives Charles XII or the scholar to try to put themselves above the human wishes he portrays ; in the constant shifts from judicious detachment to involved pity he illus ...
... Johnson's wish for detachment is the same kind of aspiration as drives Charles XII or the scholar to try to put themselves above the human wishes he portrays ; in the constant shifts from judicious detachment to involved pity he illus ...
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... Johnson seems to give with one hand he immediately removes with the other . For these reasons the religious detachment that he proposes at the end of his poem as a way out is belied by what has gone before . It can only be a prayer ...
... Johnson seems to give with one hand he immediately removes with the other . For these reasons the religious detachment that he proposes at the end of his poem as a way out is belied by what has gone before . It can only be a prayer ...
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