The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 31
... less to know , less that seems worth knowing . He was a shallower personality . Often he revealed himself because he was too naïve to realize what others would think ; but often Johnson did it because he cared not a rap what others ...
... less to know , less that seems worth knowing . He was a shallower personality . Often he revealed himself because he was too naïve to realize what others would think ; but often Johnson did it because he cared not a rap what others ...
Pagina 43
... less has it excited posterity . It impressed , however , even if it did not inebriate . And though , at the price of twopence , its circula- tion seems to have been less than five hundred , as a book it reached ten editions during ...
... less has it excited posterity . It impressed , however , even if it did not inebriate . And though , at the price of twopence , its circula- tion seems to have been less than five hundred , as a book it reached ten editions during ...
Pagina 78
... less picturesque , less amusing , less known and valued to - day . Johnson lives for us not so much as a remarkable writer , but rather as an extraordinary dramatic character in the great drama of life — often tragic , still more often ...
... less picturesque , less amusing , less known and valued to - day . Johnson lives for us not so much as a remarkable writer , but rather as an extraordinary dramatic character in the great drama of life — often tragic , still more often ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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