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Johnson remains what the French call - curiously enough , for it is the reverse of typical — ' un vrai type ' . The personality of Byron , no doubt , may have been for a time more dominant . To Goethe , I suppose , comparison between ...
Johnson remains what the French call - curiously enough , for it is the reverse of typical — ' un vrai type ' . The personality of Byron , no doubt , may have been for a time more dominant . To Goethe , I suppose , comparison between ...
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It remains to say something of Johnson's books ; even though his real appeal — as an extraordinary personality with an extraordinary power of speech - appears far less in them than in his talk ; so that Johnson is really bigger in ...
It remains to say something of Johnson's books ; even though his real appeal — as an extraordinary personality with an extraordinary power of speech - appears far less in them than in his talk ; so that Johnson is really bigger in ...
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What , then , remains for the modern reader , who does not bear the burden of having Chesterfield for father ? The letters have wit ; wisdom ; a clear and vigorous , if monotonous , style ; and a certain force of personality .
What , then , remains for the modern reader , who does not bear the burden of having Chesterfield for father ? The letters have wit ; wisdom ; a clear and vigorous , if monotonous , style ; and a certain force of personality .
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Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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