Selected Essays PDF Samuel Johnson

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The best Subject for EPITAPHS is private Virtue; Virtue exerted in the same Circumstances in which the Bulk of Mankind are placed, and which, therefore, may admit of many Imitators… he that has repelled the Temptations of Poverty, and disdained to free himself from Distress, at the Expence of his Virtue, may animate Multitudes, by his Example, to the same Firmness of Heart and Steadiness of Resolution.41

It takes no very profound reading of ‘On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet’ to see that its surface meaning is very much concerned with rectifying the neglect of society, and of paying due accord to the virtues of the obscure and the petty.

But, beneath that, there is also a more profound moral level to the poem, where it engages with the consideration that Johnson felt should always inform

• Book Name: Selected Essays pdf
• Author Name Samuel Johnson
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2003