The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] Goldsmith |
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Yet it is not merely that Johnson was himself remarkable ; it is hardly less remarkable that we seem to know him so intimately . Horace Walpole , I think , wrote far better letters even than John- son's ; yet with Walpole we cannot feel ...
Yet it is not merely that Johnson was himself remarkable ; it is hardly less remarkable that we seem to know him so intimately . Horace Walpole , I think , wrote far better letters even than John- son's ; yet with Walpole we cannot feel ...
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There is no very remarkable achievement , it might be urged , in producing an unreadable tragedy , some ponder- ous essays , and a mass of hackwork . The Dictionary and the Shakespeare are obsolete . Rasselas , though sometimes praised ...
There is no very remarkable achievement , it might be urged , in producing an unreadable tragedy , some ponder- ous essays , and a mass of hackwork . The Dictionary and the Shakespeare are obsolete . Rasselas , though sometimes praised ...
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And it is obvious that two books so remarkable as the Tour and the Life imply remarkable merits in their author . But at this point , I think , one should grow very careful . It is easy and tempting for the critic to be drawn on into ...
And it is obvious that two books so remarkable as the Tour and the Life imply remarkable merits in their author . But at this point , I think , one should grow very careful . It is easy and tempting for the critic to be drawn on into ...
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Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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