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Pàgina ix
... less attention to profit from his labours than any man to whom literature has been a profes- sion ' ) ; that the work outgrew the original design , and became much more than a set of little lives and little prefaces to a little edition ...
... less attention to profit from his labours than any man to whom literature has been a profes- sion ' ) ; that the work outgrew the original design , and became much more than a set of little lives and little prefaces to a little edition ...
Pàgina x
... less than intelligent in application . This is the more creditable to the candour of recent critics that the Lives are conspicuously and lamentably deficient in a particular wherein the present age has covered itself with glory . The ...
... less than intelligent in application . This is the more creditable to the candour of recent critics that the Lives are conspicuously and lamentably deficient in a particular wherein the present age has covered itself with glory . The ...
Pàgina xii
... view of the relation subsisting between Morals and Art . That he who was emphatically a good man and not , like Savage , merely the friend of goodness , who was " scarce less eminent as a moralist than as a lexicographer xii INTRODUCTION ...
... view of the relation subsisting between Morals and Art . That he who was emphatically a good man and not , like Savage , merely the friend of goodness , who was " scarce less eminent as a moralist than as a lexicographer xii INTRODUCTION ...
Pàgina xiii
Samuel Johnson. scarce less eminent as a moralist than as a lexicographer , who saw that men are of necessity ' perpetually moral , but are geometricians ' - he might have added , or poets or painters- only by chance , ' — that such an ...
Samuel Johnson. scarce less eminent as a moralist than as a lexicographer , who saw that men are of necessity ' perpetually moral , but are geometricians ' - he might have added , or poets or painters- only by chance , ' — that such an ...
Pàgina xv
... less than this can only be pretty , the plaything of fashion , and the amusement of a day . ' In works , then , which , unlike such trifles , do not ' presuppose an accidental or artificial state of mind , ' and which are to please for ...
... less than this can only be pretty , the plaything of fashion , and the amusement of a day . ' In works , then , which , unlike such trifles , do not ' presuppose an accidental or artificial state of mind , ' and which are to please for ...
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