Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the LearnedUniversity of Delaware Press, 2001 - 293 Seiten Critical analysis of Johnson's book reviews |
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... Perhaps these less known works have been ignored because consciously or subcon- sciously , in the minds of some students of Johnson , there is a feeling of embarrassment that one of the greatest writers in English literature had to ...
... Perhaps these less known works have been ignored because consciously or subcon- sciously , in the minds of some students of Johnson , there is a feeling of embarrassment that one of the greatest writers in English literature had to ...
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... perhaps never more necessary than now , would be superfluous and vain . " The prob- lems alluded to in the Monthly Review's " Advertisement " had been brew- ing for many years , but the demand for what can aptly be described as modern ...
... perhaps never more necessary than now , would be superfluous and vain . " The prob- lems alluded to in the Monthly Review's " Advertisement " had been brew- ing for many years , but the demand for what can aptly be described as modern ...
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... perhaps , be true , that at all times more have been willing than have been able to write , yet there is no reason for believing , that the dogmatical legions of the present race were ever equalled in number by any former period . " 21 ...
... perhaps , be true , that at all times more have been willing than have been able to write , yet there is no reason for believing , that the dogmatical legions of the present race were ever equalled in number by any former period . " 21 ...
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... perhaps , unbe- coming of his considerable polemical powers.25 Nevertheless , " Reflections on the Present State of Literature " is very much an apt companion to Adventurer 115. For instance , we find here , as we do in the earlier ...
... perhaps , unbe- coming of his considerable polemical powers.25 Nevertheless , " Reflections on the Present State of Literature " is very much an apt companion to Adventurer 115. For instance , we find here , as we do in the earlier ...
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... Perhaps no class of human species requires more to be cautioned against " excessively sanguine expectations of future happiness and glory " than those that aspire to the name of authors , " Johnson asserts . A man of lively fancy no ...
... Perhaps no class of human species requires more to be cautioned against " excessively sanguine expectations of future happiness and glory " than those that aspire to the name of authors , " Johnson asserts . A man of lively fancy no ...
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Johnson as a Reviewer of Historical Literary and Philosophical Titles in the Literary Magazine | 58 |
Johnson as a Reviewer of Journalistic Publications Fugitive Pieces and Books on Public Affairs in the Literary Magazine | 125 |
Johnson as Reviewer of Works in the Physical Practical and Natural Sciences in the Literary Magazine | 151 |
Johnson as an Occasional Reviewer in the Gentlemans Magazine and the Critical Review | 199 |
Book Reviewing in the Moral Essays Johnsons Commentary on Recently Published Books in the Rambler Adventurer and Idler | 225 |
The Canon of Johnsons Literary Magazine Reviews | 238 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 273 |
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