 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 pages
...parenthetically in the text. 9. Johnson powerfully concludes the review of Jenyns with a different sort of "end": "the only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it." Samuel Johnson, "Review of [Soame Jenyns], A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil" (1757),... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 pages
...the universal principle or final cause of poetry. 'The only end of writing', according to Johnson, 'is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.'4 Hence the central issues of criticism were defined or adjudicated in terms of effects on readers.... | |
 | 2006 - 488 pages
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 | F. L. Lucas - 2006 - 292 pages
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 | 1774 - 388 pages
...Productions of 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...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 arc Puppets, of which fome Creature not... | |
 | 730 pages
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 | 1964 - 204 pages
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 | 1952 - 896 pages
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 | Roger Lonsdale - 2006 - 672 pages
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The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it... 
