 | Samuel Johnson - 1973 - 492 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1974 - 312 pages
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 | 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;... | |
 | Peter Abbs - 1975 - 266 pages
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 | David Cecil - 1975 - 330 pages
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 | British Academy - 1977 - 440 pages
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The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it... 
