 | Ian Graham - 1994 - 508 pages
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 | Steven H. Gale - 1996 - 680 pages
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 | Peter Kemp - 1997 - 512 pages
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 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pages
...Johnson's responses may be his own temperament. The crucial word "endured," from a critic who held that "the only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it," implies that the pain of life as well as writing can often seem unendurable to someone who feels it.20... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...a horse still. 5152 I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just. 5153 A Free Enquiry only music. 5480 Letter to JH Reynolds A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off 5154 While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates. 5155 That is the happiest conversatlon... | |
 | Alan Jacobs - 1998 - 192 pages
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 | Alan Jacobs - 1998 - 188 pages
...truth beauty"]; Prospero's has been equally succinctly stated by Dr. Johnson: Tlic only end of uniting is to enable the readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it. We want a poem to be beautiful, that is to say, a verbal earthly paradise, a timeless world of pure... | |
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The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it... 
