The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 122
... Gray , but " glittering accumulations of ungraceful ornaments " ' ; for no one has more splendidly praised Gray's Elegy ( though Johnson was less kind to it in conversation ) .1 To say that ' Johnson had no ear , and he had no ...
... Gray , but " glittering accumulations of ungraceful ornaments " ' ; for no one has more splendidly praised Gray's Elegy ( though Johnson was less kind to it in conversation ) .1 To say that ' Johnson had no ear , and he had no ...
Pagina 273
... Gray , he incomparably surpassed his model . ' Mason's Life of Gray , ' he writes to Temple in 1788 , ' is excellent , because it is interspersed with letters that show us the man . His Life of Whitehead is not a life at all ; for there ...
... Gray , he incomparably surpassed his model . ' Mason's Life of Gray , ' he writes to Temple in 1788 , ' is excellent , because it is interspersed with letters that show us the man . His Life of Whitehead is not a life at all ; for there ...
Pagina 331
... Gray , I suppose , was the better poet ; but it seems to me a good deal healthier to be Goldsmith . ' Let the dead bury their dead . ' Gray too had a very pretty humour ; but for him ( as not for Goldsmith ) there was something that ...
... Gray , I suppose , was the better poet ; but it seems to me a good deal healthier to be Goldsmith . ' Let the dead bury their dead . ' Gray too had a very pretty humour ; but for him ( as not for Goldsmith ) there was something that ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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