Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel JohnsonUniversity of Delaware Press, 1999 - 335 עמודים Comments on Johnson's versatile career as satirist, playwright, moralist, neo-Latinist, elegise, prologuist and writer of drawing-room verse. This reconsideration calls attention to the qualities that so captivated Johnson's 18th-century readers and argues both the historical importance and continuing critical significance of Johnson's poetry. |
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עמוד 97
... Passion fan my Bosom . ( 2.6.87-93 ) Demetrius , too , is blown along his course by the winds of heroic love . Demetrius ' patriotism , rather than an end in itself , is rooted in his passion for Aspasia . " Indeed , " as Leopold ...
... Passion fan my Bosom . ( 2.6.87-93 ) Demetrius , too , is blown along his course by the winds of heroic love . Demetrius ' patriotism , rather than an end in itself , is rooted in his passion for Aspasia . " Indeed , " as Leopold ...
עמוד 189
... passion and delusion , of " Charms " which " press on every Sense " ( line 11 ) and of " Deceitful Hope , and vain ... passions . As a result , “ Instruction with her Flowers might spring , / And Wisdom warble from her String " ( lines ...
... passion and delusion , of " Charms " which " press on every Sense " ( line 11 ) and of " Deceitful Hope , and vain ... passions . As a result , “ Instruction with her Flowers might spring , / And Wisdom warble from her String " ( lines ...
עמוד 288
... passions were not sufficiently regulated , and that he was harrassed by his own impatience , which could never be ... passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle ...
... passions were not sufficiently regulated , and that he was harrassed by his own impatience , which could never be ... passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Young Author | 31 |
London Country Ideology and the Limits | 57 |
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