 | Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - Страниц: 328
...understand him : the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge ; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things...Swift's desire to attain, and for having attained it he deserves praise, though perhaps not the highest praise. For purposes merely didactic, when something... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - Страниц: 616
...always understand him: the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge ; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things...solid ground, without asperities, without obstruction. —JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1779-81, Swift, Lives of the English Poets. ' ' Now mark, Serena I ' ' (the mild... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - Страниц: 788
...knowledge : it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things. . . . This easy and safe conveyance of meaning it was Swift's...attain, and for having attained he deserves praise, though perhaps not the highest praise.' — Johnson (Life of Swift). ' BOSWELL : We find people differ... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - Страниц: 412
...1984), 489. 87 Johnson, Lives, 3:242-4. 88 Johnson, Lives, 3:251, 2:230. 89 The full passage reads: "This easy and safe conveyance of meaning it was Swift's...attain, and for having attained he deserves praise, though perhaps not the highest praise. For purposes merely didactick, when something is to be told... | |
 | Herbert Read - 1929 - Страниц: 248
...always understands him: the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge: it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things;...ground, without asperities, without obstruction." This is the perfect definition of a popular style, whose essence, apart from the unqualifiable merit of... | |
 | Herbert Read - 1929 - Страниц: 248
...always understands him: the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge: it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things;...ground, without asperities, without obstruction." This is the perfect definition of a popular style, whose essence, apart from the unqualifiable merit of... | |
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... him: the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge : it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things ; he is neither required to mount elevations, nor to explore profundities; his passage is always on a level,... 
