The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 267
... biographical frank- ness : in due time his own love - affair with Annette Vallon was dis- interred . In vain did Matthew Arnold wish to have no biography at all : biographies of Arnold multiply , and scholars speculate at large on his ...
... biographical frank- ness : in due time his own love - affair with Annette Vallon was dis- interred . In vain did Matthew Arnold wish to have no biography at all : biographies of Arnold multiply , and scholars speculate at large on his ...
Pagina 271
... Biography , like history , remains art as well as science . Its paramount duty is truth . But though it should tell nothing but the truth , it cannot possibly tell the whole truth . It must select , or die of its own unwieldy corpulence ...
... Biography , like history , remains art as well as science . Its paramount duty is truth . But though it should tell nothing but the truth , it cannot possibly tell the whole truth . It must select , or die of its own unwieldy corpulence ...
Pagina 273
... biography , which gives not only a history of Johnson's visible progress through the world , and of his publications , but a view of his mind , in his letters and conversations , is the most perfect that can be conceived , and will be ...
... biography , which gives not only a history of Johnson's visible progress through the world , and of his publications , but a view of his mind , in his letters and conversations , is the most perfect that can be conceived , and will be ...
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