The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] Goldsmith |
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So now she yielded to that passion for honest Gabriel Piozzi , which neither Johnson , nor her children , nor — with less excuse - posterity could ever forgive . I have never understood why critics should still stamp on her grave for it ...
So now she yielded to that passion for honest Gabriel Piozzi , which neither Johnson , nor her children , nor — with less excuse - posterity could ever forgive . I have never understood why critics should still stamp on her grave for it ...
Pagina 74
Thus his passion caused him remorse — till new passion goaded him into new remorselessness . One can actually watch the process in that scene of high comedy when the gaunt and gawky Langton , in answer to Johnson's humble request to be ...
Thus his passion caused him remorse — till new passion goaded him into new remorselessness . One can actually watch the process in that scene of high comedy when the gaunt and gawky Langton , in answer to Johnson's humble request to be ...
Pagina 82
Hence his passion for biography was only equalled by his contempt for the brute , impersonal facts of history . He would have agreed with Goldsmith's ' ingenious gentleman ' who , when asked what was the best reading for the young ...
Hence his passion for biography was only equalled by his contempt for the brute , impersonal facts of history . He would have agreed with Goldsmith's ' ingenious gentleman ' who , when asked what was the best reading for the young ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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