The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] Goldsmith |
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Pagina 45
I have never understood why critics should still stamp on her grave for it ; as if we could still , like her contemporaries , regard Piozzi as impossible for the four not very valid reasons that he was obscure , a musician , an Italian ...
I have never understood why critics should still stamp on her grave for it ; as if we could still , like her contemporaries , regard Piozzi as impossible for the four not very valid reasons that he was obscure , a musician , an Italian ...
Pagina 156
Clean your teeth properly ; cut your nails properly ; use your handker- chief properly ; and never laugh . ( A gentleman never laughs ; the noise is ' disagreeable ' , and the distortion ' shocking ' . Chesterfield himself has never ...
Clean your teeth properly ; cut your nails properly ; use your handker- chief properly ; and never laugh . ( A gentleman never laughs ; the noise is ' disagreeable ' , and the distortion ' shocking ' . Chesterfield himself has never ...
Pagina 302
Never fatigued themselves , they think the reader can never be weary ; so they drone on , saying all that can be said on the subject , not selecting what may be advanced to the purpose . Were angels to write books , they never would ...
Never fatigued themselves , they think the reader can never be weary ; so they drone on , saying all that can be said on the subject , not selecting what may be advanced to the purpose . Were angels to write books , they never would ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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