The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell, GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 58
... thought ' is all the worse for being often thought , because , to be wit , it ought to be newly thought . " Mr Pepys . " But , Sir , ' tis the expression makes it new . " Dr Johnson . " How can the expression make it new ? It may make ...
... thought ' is all the worse for being often thought , because , to be wit , it ought to be newly thought . " Mr Pepys . " But , Sir , ' tis the expression makes it new . " Dr Johnson . " How can the expression make it new ? It may make ...
Pagina 65
... thought all machines employing human strength , like the lever or the pulley , must be equally chimerical . A pity that Johnson never lived to see the first bicycle of 1839 . Nor is it impressive to find him recommending to Sophia ...
... thought all machines employing human strength , like the lever or the pulley , must be equally chimerical . A pity that Johnson never lived to see the first bicycle of 1839 . Nor is it impressive to find him recommending to Sophia ...
Pagina 69
... thought of it , so at times Johnson liked to speak his thoughts in polysyllables to show how much he thought of them . None the less one cannot doubt his love of Latin for its own sake . In it he re- corded events of his own life ; in ...
... thought of it , so at times Johnson liked to speak his thoughts in polysyllables to show how much he thought of them . None the less one cannot doubt his love of Latin for its own sake . In it he re- corded events of his own life ; in ...
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