The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 191
... genius : in that does my opulence consist , and not in base metal . ' That such absurdities could make Boswell think himself a genius is fantastic enough ; but what remains far more fantastic is , that for quite different reasons he had ...
... genius : in that does my opulence consist , and not in base metal . ' That such absurdities could make Boswell think himself a genius is fantastic enough ; but what remains far more fantastic is , that for quite different reasons he had ...
Pagina 274
... genius ' . For ' genius ' becomes often rather a tiresome pomp - word , a cant - term of literary mystics , which it might per- haps be better never to use at all . The ancient Romans believed that every man possessed his ' genius ...
... genius ' . For ' genius ' becomes often rather a tiresome pomp - word , a cant - term of literary mystics , which it might per- haps be better never to use at all . The ancient Romans believed that every man possessed his ' genius ...
Pagina 275
... genius ' as a thing apart , separated by a great gulf from mere ' talent ' . I do not believe in this gulf . From Hodge to Homer I do not believe that Nature makes a sudden leap at any point in the ascending scale of human qualities ...
... genius ' as a thing apart , separated by a great gulf from mere ' talent ' . I do not believe in this gulf . From Hodge to Homer I do not believe that Nature makes a sudden leap at any point in the ascending scale of human qualities ...
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