The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... recorded than in Boswell's Johnson ; and less worth recording . Johnson , in short , was not only great , he was incredibly lucky . He not only had Reynolds to paint him , he had Boswell . And , beside Boswell , what is even Reynolds ...
... recorded than in Boswell's Johnson ; and less worth recording . Johnson , in short , was not only great , he was incredibly lucky . He not only had Reynolds to paint him , he had Boswell . And , beside Boswell , what is even Reynolds ...
Pagina 59
... recorded Johnson as saying ' he'd make a very good eunuch ' . Which strange notion he then proceeded to amplify in detail . Boswell seems to have writhed much more at these peculiar pleasantries than at the serious insults of Johnson's ...
... recorded Johnson as saying ' he'd make a very good eunuch ' . Which strange notion he then proceeded to amplify in detail . Boswell seems to have writhed much more at these peculiar pleasantries than at the serious insults of Johnson's ...
Pagina 266
... recording conversa- tions . But this careful recording is only part of a larger passion for accuracy in biography which does Boswell all the more credit because the need for truth in biography or history has not always been the truism ...
... recording conversa- tions . But this careful recording is only part of a larger passion for accuracy in biography which does Boswell all the more credit because the need for truth in biography or history has not always been the truism ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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