 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 428 pages
...the laft bounteous Year, how many can be faid to ferve any Purpofe of Ufe or Pleafure? The only Eivi of writing is to enable the Readers better to enjoy...Life, or better to endure it : and how will either of thofe be put more in our Power by him who tells us, that we are Puppets, of which fome Creature not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 392 pages
...the laft bounteous Year, how many can be faid to ferveany Purpofe of Ufe or Pleafure ? The only End of writing is to enable the Readers better to enjoy...Life, or better to endure it : and how will either of thofe be put more in our Power by him who tells us, that we are Puppets, of which fome Creature not... | |
 | 1774 - 390 pages
...many pan be, fafd to ferve any Purpofe of Ufe or Pleafure ? .The only.Tind of writing is to en- ^ able the Readers better to enjoy Life, or better to endure .it : and how will either of thofe be put more in our Power by him who tells us, that we are Puppets, of which fome Creature not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 550 pages
...the laft bounteous year, how many can be faid to ferve any purpofe of ufe or pleafure? The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy...life, or better to endure it : and how will either of thofe be put more in our power by him who tells us, that we are puppets, of which fome creature not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...the laft bounteous year, how many can be faid to ferve any purpofe of ufe or pleafure? The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy...life, or better to endure it : and how will either of thofe be put more in our power by him who tells us, that we are puppets, of which fbme creature not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 pages
...the laft bounteous year, how many can be faid to ferve any purpofe of ufe or pleafure ? The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy...life, or better to endure it : and how will either of thofe be put more in our power by him who tells us that we are puppets, of which fome creature not... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pages
...remains one of the most vigorous denunciations of naturalistic pessimism ever penned. "The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it: how will either of those be put more in our power by him who tells us that we are puppets, of which... | |
 | 1926 - 916 pages
...more understandable to his fellow mortals. Socrates: "The only end of writing," said Doctor Johnson, "is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." Do you agree with that? Catholicus: Y — es. But why go back to the eighteenth century? Socrates:... | |
 | 1927 - 924 pages
...more understandable to his fellow mortals. Socrates: "The only end of writing," said Doctor Johnson, "is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." Do you agree with that? Catholicus: Y — es. But why go back to the eighteenth century? Socrates:... | |
 | Jacques Barzun - 1975 - 168 pages
...literature just before its spiritual rise, it is 31 tersely put by Dr. Johnson when he says that the "end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." The charm that music has to soothe a savage breast had long been known; it was therapeutic and a pastime;... | |
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The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it... 
