 | Michael Mascuch - 1996 - 302 páginas
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 | Linda Bree - 1996 - 200 páginas
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 | Robert D. Spector - 1997 - 272 páginas
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 | Sarah MacKenzie Zimmerman - 1999 - 260 páginas
...read with great tranquillity." Therefore, Johnson determines, "no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography, since none can be more...diffuse instruction to every diversity of condition." 76 The lyric mode offers readers a sense of personal knowledge of the poet that Johnson deems crucial... | |
 | Maurice Wohlgelernter - 230 páginas
...an Only Child Of all the species of writing, Samuel Johnson once remarked, none "seems more worthy of cultivation than biography, since none can be more...diffuse instruction to every diversity of condition." True of biography, it is truer of autobiography for, he added, "every man's life may best be written... | |
 | Devoney Looser - 2005 - 298 páginas
...the temper of the times in her book rather than publishing trumped-up annals. Histories composed of "general and rapid narratives of history, which involve a thousand fortunes in the business of a day" were sharply criticized by Samuel Johnson, and it is difficult to imagine that Lennox intended to write... | |
 | Jay Parini - 2002 - 550 páginas
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... no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography, since none can be more delightful or more useful, none can more certainly enchain the heart by irresistible interest, or more widely diffuse instruction to every diversity of condition. 
