The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] Goldsmith |
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They interest us largely because of our interest in Johnson himself . For he is an exception to the general rule that writers often seem not only oddly different from their books , but also markedly in- ferior to their books.1 As ...
They interest us largely because of our interest in Johnson himself . For he is an exception to the general rule that writers often seem not only oddly different from their books , but also markedly in- ferior to their books.1 As ...
Pagina 59
Yet , even so , the full extent of Johnson's capacity for rudeness will remain , perhaps , for ever unknown . For at Auchinleck he made some retort to Boswell's father which even Boswell could not bear , or dare , to record .
Yet , even so , the full extent of Johnson's capacity for rudeness will remain , perhaps , for ever unknown . For at Auchinleck he made some retort to Boswell's father which even Boswell could not bear , or dare , to record .
Pagina 88
It embodies so vividly Johnson's combination of honesty and harshness , yet also of tenderness and affection . Pepys , I suspect , was doubly odious to Johnson : first , because , in Mrs Thrale's phrase elsewhere , his arti- ficiality ...
It embodies so vividly Johnson's combination of honesty and harshness , yet also of tenderness and affection . Pepys , I suspect , was doubly odious to Johnson : first , because , in Mrs Thrale's phrase elsewhere , his arti- ficiality ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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