 In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Pagina 379door Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alan Sinfield, Lindsay Smith - 1998 - 208 pagina’s
...Elegy Wtitren in a Country Churchyards an example of genuine achievement: in the characrer of [Gray's] Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupred with lirerary prejudices, afrer all the refinements of subtility and the dogmatism of learning,... | |
 | Leah Price - 2003 - 236 pagina’s
...one of the volumes which together make up an anthology writ large of Works of the English Poets) to "rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by...sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices . . . must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. "5 Johnson's "common sense" anticipates... | |
 | Joan Bennett - 1945 - 198 pagina’s
...her collections of essays, The Common Reader from Dr Johnson, who had written in his Life of Gray: "I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all refinements of subtility and dogmatism of learning, must be finally... | |
 | Bascove Bascove - 2006 - 180 pagina’s
...libraries, yet full of books, where the pursuit of reading is carried on by private people. ". . .1 rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be... | |
 | George Douglas Atkins - 2005 - 196 pagina’s
...pursuit of reading is carried on by private people." She then quotes Johnson, from his Life of Gray. '"I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be... | |
 | Patrick Collier - 2006 - 284 pagina’s
...emphasis added). Woolf celebrates Samuel Johnson's famous valorization of non-professional readers — "I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices ... must be finally decided all claim to poetical honors." Johnson, Woolf writes,... | |
 | James Raven, Helen Small, Naomi Tadmor - 2007 - 336 pagina’s
...Dickens and a pathology of the mid- Victorian reading public Helen Small In the character of [Gray's] Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncom1pted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning,... | |
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