The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 258
... Boswell's life reads as if he had been watched over , not by a guardian angel , but by a guardian goblin . Even when Boswell had died , this guardian goblin pursued his pranks with Boswell's remains . The story of Boswell's papers is as ...
... Boswell's life reads as if he had been watched over , not by a guardian angel , but by a guardian goblin . Even when Boswell had died , this guardian goblin pursued his pranks with Boswell's remains . The story of Boswell's papers is as ...
Pagina 276
... Boswell's biography does partly arise , as I have suggested from real merits ; but it arises also from qualities in him that seem to me defects . First , Boswell's assiduous journalizing was the result of an enormous and abnormal ...
... Boswell's biography does partly arise , as I have suggested from real merits ; but it arises also from qualities in him that seem to me defects . First , Boswell's assiduous journalizing was the result of an enormous and abnormal ...
Pagina 280
... Boswell's letters — 'the puerile vanity of a fatuous fool, coupled with the arrogant rigidity of an old Cato'.1 To Boswell, in certain of his moods, that is, though severe, not unfair. On the other hand it is the utterance of an angry ...
... Boswell's letters — 'the puerile vanity of a fatuous fool, coupled with the arrogant rigidity of an old Cato'.1 To Boswell, in certain of his moods, that is, though severe, not unfair. On the other hand it is the utterance of an angry ...
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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