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... writing . " The end of poetry is pleasure . " " The purpose of a writer is to be read . " 15 Johnson , in his supreme common sense , was but echoing the opinions of those he dominated . To the eighteenth - cen- tury gentleman , Paradise ...
... writing . " The end of poetry is pleasure . " " The purpose of a writer is to be read . " 15 Johnson , in his supreme common sense , was but echoing the opinions of those he dominated . To the eighteenth - cen- tury gentleman , Paradise ...
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... writing down the Turks ; and I , the writer , am all for fighting them down . " 82 That he was an excellent " fighter down " of the Turks , most historians , among whom Howard Nicholson speaks with greatest authority , are agreed . In ...
... writing down the Turks ; and I , the writer , am all for fighting them down . " 82 That he was an excellent " fighter down " of the Turks , most historians , among whom Howard Nicholson speaks with greatest authority , are agreed . In ...
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... writing , we have word here and there in the reports of his friends and in occasional assertions in his own conversations and correspondence . He wrote , usually , at night , 69 after returning from the theatre , or from a bout or talk ...
... writing , we have word here and there in the reports of his friends and in occasional assertions in his own conversations and correspondence . He wrote , usually , at night , 69 after returning from the theatre , or from a bout or talk ...
Contents
THE AGE OF REASON | 21 |
REBIRTH | 123 |
DRAMA AND PROPAGANDA | 152 |
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