The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 180
... Macaulay , and unlike Johnson , sympathized with the American revolutiona- ries ; 1 Macaulay cannot have thought this ' absurd ' ; and it seems a little harsh to dismiss it as ' commonplace ' . Again , some of Boswell's comments on ...
... Macaulay , and unlike Johnson , sympathized with the American revolutiona- ries ; 1 Macaulay cannot have thought this ' absurd ' ; and it seems a little harsh to dismiss it as ' commonplace ' . Again , some of Boswell's comments on ...
Pagina 181
... Macaulay's own day ; still more , of ours , when the tendency has become rather , I think , for Boswell to be over - idolized . ) A pity that Macaulay's brilliance was so tempestuous . For it encourages fools not to suffer him , just as ...
... Macaulay's own day ; still more , of ours , when the tendency has become rather , I think , for Boswell to be over - idolized . ) A pity that Macaulay's brilliance was so tempestuous . For it encourages fools not to suffer him , just as ...
Pagina 182
... Macaulay's sake , much in his view of Boswell . What Macaulay would have said , had he lived to see the Boswell Papers , I do not know . Their bottomless pits of fatuity might have moved him to cry triumphantly , ' I told you so ' ; or ...
... Macaulay's sake , much in his view of Boswell . What Macaulay would have said , had he lived to see the Boswell Papers , I do not know . Their bottomless pits of fatuity might have moved him to cry triumphantly , ' I told you so ' ; or ...
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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