The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 43
... Rasselas ( 1759 ) scribbled in the evenings of a single week , to pay for his mother's funeral , is a prose counterpart of Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes . However , not the least strong of human wishes is to read about their vanity ...
... Rasselas ( 1759 ) scribbled in the evenings of a single week , to pay for his mother's funeral , is a prose counterpart of Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes . However , not the least strong of human wishes is to read about their vanity ...
Pagina 116
... Rasselas next encounters a poet , Imlac , who informs him , in another famous passage , that poetry must be general , not con- cerning itself with minutiae like numbering the streaks of the tulip ; and recites such a list of ...
... Rasselas next encounters a poet , Imlac , who informs him , in another famous passage , that poetry must be general , not con- cerning itself with minutiae like numbering the streaks of the tulip ; and recites such a list of ...
Pagina 119
... Rasselas , his sister , and Pekuah - who become for him something of what Mrs Thrale and Fanny Burney were to be for ... Rasselas has not the wit , the high spirits , the diablerie of Vol- taire's Candide . For me , Rasselas ...
... Rasselas , his sister , and Pekuah - who become for him something of what Mrs Thrale and Fanny Burney were to be for ... Rasselas has not the wit , the high spirits , the diablerie of Vol- taire's Candide . For me , Rasselas ...
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