Samuel Johnson, BiographerCornell University Press, 1978 - 237 Seiten |
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... particular lives . The majority of these unwritten lives , like the majority of those he wrote , would have been literary biographies . Very early in his career he published proposals for an edition of Politian's poems , which would ...
... particular lives . The majority of these unwritten lives , like the majority of those he wrote , would have been literary biographies . Very early in his career he published proposals for an edition of Politian's poems , which would ...
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... particular or in general . Of the first approach one can hardly say it is the noblest pursuit of man . What is it to know man in particular ? It is to know fools and scoundrels .... The case is quite different with the study of man in ...
... particular or in general . Of the first approach one can hardly say it is the noblest pursuit of man . What is it to know man in particular ? It is to know fools and scoundrels .... The case is quite different with the study of man in ...
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... particular . He has no Aubreyan interest in the brute fact . He will not describe eyes as blue , grey , or hazel , but he will mention that Pope's eyes were " animated and vivid " in order to explain the attractiveness of this otherwise ...
... particular . He has no Aubreyan interest in the brute fact . He will not describe eyes as blue , grey , or hazel , but he will mention that Pope's eyes were " animated and vivid " in order to explain the attractiveness of this otherwise ...
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Preface 95 | 15 |
Conclusion | 214 |
Bibliography | 221 |
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