The physician in English history / by Norman Moore.

  • Moore, Norman, 1847-1922.
Date:
1913
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Credit: The physician in English history / by Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    splendour of Johnson and Burke. Leslie Stephen, exact, concise, full of literature and of human feeling, added his picture from a different standpoint. Birkbeck Hill appeared as the Gronovius of Johnson and left no passage unexplained and no name unindexed. Raleigh, a glory of this university though writing in another, has shown his just confidence in his own powers and insight into literature by his six Johnsonian essays, and John Bailey in this year, rightly undeterred by all that had been written before, has produced a book fresh and original throughout, showing, more fully and clearly than had been shown before, Johnson’s relation to the habits of thought and the senti¬ ments of the English nation, how great an Englishman he was and ever will be. Thus from their own time to ours have the thoughts and words of the Johnsonian circle influenced the nation. In this great company