Johnson´s Table Talk
| Preis: | 24.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Boswell, James) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Johnson´s Table Talk: A Selection of His Main Topics and Opinions Taken From Boswell´s Life and Arranged by W. A. Lewis Bettany When all allowances have been made, and all compliments paid, when the standard Life of Johnson has been praised for its piquant and malicious "Ana" of distinguished persons, for its Pepys-like revelation of its author´s vanities and foibles, as well as for its invaluable view of late eighteenth-century literature and literary men, it must be admitted to base its surest title to immortality on that marvellous collection of its subject´s conversations and correspondence which it incorporates. True, Johnson´s philosophy is expressed in more formal and deliberate fashion in his satires and in his essays. But London is a mere academic exercise in soeva indignatio; The Vanity of Human Wishes, for all its intensity of moral fervour, retains many crabbed and many commonplace lines. In both poems, indeed, Johnson falls as far behind Pope in pungency as he sinks below Goldsmith in pathos: he is pompous rather than majestic, affected instead of being affecting, and his "constant epithets" are the least of his offences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.
Folgende Produkte könnten dir ebenso gefallen
