The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell, GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 169
... turn to satire and contempt , and a strong tendency to argumentation and contradiction . But I had been but a very little in the world , before I found that this would by no means do . ' He did not wish to see his son illiberally ...
... turn to satire and contempt , and a strong tendency to argumentation and contradiction . But I had been but a very little in the world , before I found that this would by no means do . ' He did not wish to see his son illiberally ...
Pagina 191
... turning tops in a turning - loom . There's fancy ! There's simile ! In short , I am at present a genius : in that does my opulence consist , and not in base metal . ' That such absurdities could make Boswell think himself a genius is ...
... turning tops in a turning - loom . There's fancy ! There's simile ! In short , I am at present a genius : in that does my opulence consist , and not in base metal . ' That such absurdities could make Boswell think himself a genius is ...
Pagina 319
... turn round , it must be in a circle not smaller than that described by the wheeling crocodile , when it would face an assailant ' . Or there is the hopeful young author - like the porcupine , I sate self - collected , with a quill poin ...
... turn round , it must be in a circle not smaller than that described by the wheeling crocodile , when it would face an assailant ' . Or there is the hopeful young author - like the porcupine , I sate self - collected , with a quill poin ...
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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