The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 113
... seems to have kept to his principle of not being ' blockhead ' enough to write them for nothing , and duly charged his guinea , or two . At least , however , he can also laugh very pleasantly at his own gloom . ' Sir , ' begins an ...
... seems to have kept to his principle of not being ' blockhead ' enough to write them for nothing , and duly charged his guinea , or two . At least , however , he can also laugh very pleasantly at his own gloom . ' Sir , ' begins an ...
Pagina 122
... seems to me far nearer the general truth than the blundering logic and rambling abstrac- tions with which the question was debated a generation later , at unconscionable length , by Wordsworth and Coleridge . Similarly with Strachey's ...
... seems to me far nearer the general truth than the blundering logic and rambling abstrac- tions with which the question was debated a generation later , at unconscionable length , by Wordsworth and Coleridge . Similarly with Strachey's ...
Pagina 173
... seem to me rather repellent ; things that it is an offence in critics to defend . He is typical of one side of the eighteenth century - of what still seems to many its most typical side . But it does not seem to me the really great side ...
... seem to me rather repellent ; things that it is an offence in critics to defend . He is typical of one side of the eighteenth century - of what still seems to many its most typical side . But it does not seem to me the really great side ...
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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