The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... conversation in The Idler - I will instruct the modest by easy generalities and repress the ostenta- tious by seasonable superciliousness . ' We smile . At times , indeed , Johnson could laugh at this mania in himself , as when he ...
... conversation in The Idler - I will instruct the modest by easy generalities and repress the ostenta- tious by seasonable superciliousness . ' We smile . At times , indeed , Johnson could laugh at this mania in himself , as when he ...
Pagina 105
... conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician , retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city . ' Boswell . ' But I wonder , Sir , you have not more ...
... conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician , retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city . ' Boswell . ' But I wonder , Sir , you have not more ...
Pagina 106
... conversation . For him it was a serious intellectual exer- cise . Remember his grumble - ' We had talk enough , but no con- versation ; there was nothing discussed . ' And so Johnson was even more justified in his defence than he ...
... conversation . For him it was a serious intellectual exer- cise . Remember his grumble - ' We had talk enough , but no con- versation ; there was nothing discussed . ' And so Johnson was even more justified in his defence than he ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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