The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... imagine history a clear glass through which we see the past ; too often it becomes a deceiving mirror giving back our own blurred reflections , our own distorted likenesses . Yet historians and biographers seem to me constantly to ...
... imagine history a clear glass through which we see the past ; too often it becomes a deceiving mirror giving back our own blurred reflections , our own distorted likenesses . Yet historians and biographers seem to me constantly to ...
Pagina 243
... imagine the explosion , if he had . But that remedy could not , in fact , serve Boswell's case . And so the dark fits recurred - ' indolent and gloomy ' - ' relished nothing ' - ' I recollect nothing ' - ' as dreary and horrible as ever ...
... imagine the explosion , if he had . But that remedy could not , in fact , serve Boswell's case . And so the dark fits recurred - ' indolent and gloomy ' - ' relished nothing ' - ' I recollect nothing ' - ' as dreary and horrible as ever ...
Pagina 277
... imagine how a man could find it worth while to spend all these months writing about himself , nor how , even if he did , he could imagine it would be endurable to spend months more reading about himself.1 The tragedy of transi- ence ...
... imagine how a man could find it worth while to spend all these months writing about himself , nor how , even if he did , he could imagine it would be endurable to spend months more reading about himself.1 The tragedy of transi- ence ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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