...of some invisible order of beings, for surely they are of no use to any of the corporeal inhabitants of the world. Of the productions of the last bounteous...can be said to serve any purpose of use or pleasure ?" W. Robertson Nicoll. LITERARY PARIS Paris seems to have returned to literary activity with a vengeance....

...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:...

...sake of some invisible order of beings, for surely they are of no use to the corporeal inhabitants of the world. Of the productions of the last bounteous...life or better to endure it : and how will either of these be put more in our power by him who tells us that we are puppets of which some creature not much...

...of some invisible order of beings, for surely they are of no use to any of the corporeal inhabitants of the world. Of the productions of the last bounteous...how many can be said to serve any purpose of use or pleasure?1' W. Robertson Nieoll. LITERARY PARIS Paris seems to have returned to literary activity with...

...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:...

...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;...

...been equally stated by 10 Collected Poems of WB Yeats (London: Macmillan, 1967), p. 392. Dr. Johnson: The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.'11 Later in the essay, Ariel is made to stand, with his beauty, for 'a verbal earthly paradise,...

...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...

...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...

...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...