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Page 81
... conventional case history rather than anything like an autobiography . Just as he can assume the role of physician , he can as readily assume the role of political candidate . Since Henry Thrale , the real parliamentary candidate , was ...
... conventional case history rather than anything like an autobiography . Just as he can assume the role of physician , he can as readily assume the role of political candidate . Since Henry Thrale , the real parliamentary candidate , was ...
Page 115
... conventional literary per- formance . The reason children's letters are easy to find droll is that their writers have not yet learned how conventional a letter is supposed to be and don't know that the reader will be either amused or ...
... conventional literary per- formance . The reason children's letters are easy to find droll is that their writers have not yet learned how conventional a letter is supposed to be and don't know that the reader will be either amused or ...
Page 116
... conventionally belongs in a letter . It is doubtful that her friends at camp found her speechless : it is the literary ... conventional rhetoric , it was less successful . To turn from a child's letters to Johnson's is of course not to ...
... conventionally belongs in a letter . It is doubtful that her friends at camp found her speechless : it is the literary ... conventional rhetoric , it was less successful . To turn from a child's letters to Johnson's is of course not to ...
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actual appearance Arthur Murphy audience begin biography Boerhaave boredom Boswell Boswell's Caligula character Chesterfield Christian comic context conventional critical David Garrick death definitions delight Dictionary Dryden Edial eighteenth-century elegy English essay example expected finally Flying-Machine folly Garrick genre goes happiness Henry Thrale hope Human Wishes Idler imagination imitation Imlac ironic irony James Boswell John Johnson says Johnsonian kind labor language learning letter lexicographer Lichfield Lichfield Grammar School literature Lives London Lord Lycidas means mind moral nature never notice obligation occasion once Paradise Lost passage perceive perhaps piety poem poetic poetry Poets prayer Preface quotations Rambler Rasselas reader reason rhetorical Samuel Johnson satire Savage Savage's schemes seems sense Shakespeare skepticism sort style substance Suetonius theme things thought Thrale tion turn Vanity of Human virtue Vitellius W. K. Wimsatt whole words writing written wrote