 But Johnson took no notice of the challenge. He had learned, both from his own observation and from literary history, in which he was deeply read, that the place of books in the public estimation is fixed, not by what is written about them, but by what...  Literary Style: And Other Essays - Page 108by William Mathews - 1881 - 345 pagesFull view - About this book
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