Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage, Swift (Classic Reprint)

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FB&C Limited, 15 mei 2017 - 208 pagina's
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Johnson's simple truthfulness and ready sympathy made it hard for him to doubt the story told as Savage told it to him. But when he told it again himself, though he denounced one whom he believed to be an unnatural mother and dealt gently with his friend, he did not translate evil into good. Through all the generous and kindly narrative we may see clearly that Savage was an impostor. There is the heart of Johnson in the noble appeal against judgment of the self-righteous who have never known the harder trials of the world, when he says of Savage, Those are no proper judges of his conduct, who have slumbered away their time on the down of plenty; nor will any wise man easily presume to, say, 'had I been in Savage's condition, I should have lived or written better than Savage.' But Johnson, who made large allowance for temptations pressing on the poor, himself suffered and overcame the hardest trials, firm always to his duty, true servant of God and friend of man.

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