This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...a powerful factor in history. He had vast conversational powers; a simple and vigorous style. Peculiar personal habits gave him notoriety. He is the sage of the 18th Century; " whose memory keeps alive his works." Writings (Taine, II. 185-190; Hazlitt, 133-140; Gosse, 282-295; Ward, III. 245-247). London, a poem, in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...a powerful factor in history. He had vast conversational powers; a simple and vigorous style. Peculiar personal habits gave him notoriety. He is the sage of the 18th Century; " whose memory keeps alive his works." Writings (Taine, II. 185-190; Hazlitt, 133-140; Gosse, 282-295; Ward, III. 245-247). London, a poem, in imitation of Juvenal's satires. Irene, a tragedy on the Greek model; monotonous, and poorly received. The Vanity of Human Wishes, "the finest poem since Pope's time, and in Pope's manner, with the exception of Goldsmith's still finer productions.." The Rambler and The Idler. Modelled on The Spectator; short stories, literary criticism, essays on manners and morals; but heavy and dull. Dictionary. The first great English dictionary; the result of eight years' work. The letter to Lord Chesterfield concerning it put an end to literary patronage. The Dictionary is eminently readable; it is poor in philology, inexact in definition, biassed by political feeling, but happy in illustration, and a monument of genius. Rasselas. A novel, whose theme is the vanity of human wishes. The pessimistic theory that man cannot escape misery M In form, a novel; in intent, a philosophical treatise. "The book is little more than a set of essays upon life, with just story enough to hold it together."--Stephen. The Lives of the Poets. Very readable; in Johnson's best style. Its critical judgments, however, are not substantiated by the verdict of time. Johnson's style is literary, not conversational, English. His sentence structure is plain and simple, the arrangement clear; but the diction is Latinized. Inversions and balanced sentences abound. There is a fondness for putting the abstract for the concrete. Boswell's Life of Johnson (Gosse, ...
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Good. No Jacket. Ex-Libris. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Cover is scuffed, rubbed on edges, chipped at tips. Pages are lightly tanning in margins with no markings in text.
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