Samuel Johnson on LiteratureUngar, 1979 - 102 páginas |
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... writer's duty to make the world better " ( Preface to Shakespeare ) . Many of Johnson's comments on individual writers are so sharply critical because he was judging them by almost unattain- able standards . Furthermore , we must beware ...
... writer's duty to make the world better " ( Preface to Shakespeare ) . Many of Johnson's comments on individual writers are so sharply critical because he was judging them by almost unattain- able standards . Furthermore , we must beware ...
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... writers of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that should form his expectations of human affairs from the play or from the tale would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his scenes ...
... writers of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that should form his expectations of human affairs from the play or from the tale would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his scenes ...
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... writers , in his least perfect works ; art had so little , and nature so large a share in what he did , that for ... writers borrow their characters from preceding writers and diversify them only by the accidental appendages of present ...
... writers , in his least perfect works ; art had so little , and nature so large a share in what he did , that for ... writers borrow their characters from preceding writers and diversify them only by the accidental appendages of present ...
Contenido
RASSELAS 1759 | 9 |
LIVES OF THE POETS 17791781 | 47 |
BOSWELLS LIFE OF JOHNSON 1791 | 95 |
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Términos y frases comunes
action admired Antium appears attention beauties blank verse Boswell's censure characters comedy comic common compositions Comus considered criticism curiosity delight dialogue dignity diligence drama Dryden Dunciad easily elegance endeavored English English poetry epic Essay evil excellence exhibit fable fancy faults fiction genius Homer human ideas Iliad images imagination imitation incidents instruction invention John Wain judgment knowledge labor language learning literary literature Lord Monboddo Lycidas mankind manners metaphysical poets Milton mind mingled modern modes moral nature neoclassicism never novelty observed odes original Paradise Lost passages passions perhaps play pleasing pleasure poem poetical poetry Polonius Pope Pope's praise precepts Preface principles produce Rambler Rasselas reader reason remarked rhyme Samuel Johnson scenes seems sense sentiments Shakespeare sometimes spectator stanza sublime thought tion tragedy translation truth virtue Voltaire vulgar Walter Jackson Bate WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wonder words writers written