The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 70
... conversation in The Idler - ' I will instruct the modest by easy generalities and repress the ostenta- tious by seasonable superciliousness . ' We smile.2 At times , indeed , Johnson could laugh at this mania in himself , as when he ...
... conversation in The Idler - ' I will instruct the modest by easy generalities and repress the ostenta- tious by seasonable superciliousness . ' We smile.2 At times , indeed , Johnson could laugh at this mania in himself , as when he ...
Pagina 106
... conversation . For him it was a serious intellectual exer- cise . Remember his grumble - ' We had talk enough , but no con- versation ; there was nothing discussed . ' And so Johnson was even more justified in his defence than he ...
... conversation . For him it was a serious intellectual exer- cise . Remember his grumble - ' We had talk enough , but no con- versation ; there was nothing discussed . ' And so Johnson was even more justified in his defence than he ...
Pagina 271
... conversation Boswell perpetually drew his hero out and on . I also may be allowed to claim some merit in leading the conversation . I do not mean leading , as in an orchestra , by playing the first fiddle , but leading as one does in ...
... conversation Boswell perpetually drew his hero out and on . I also may be allowed to claim some merit in leading the conversation . I do not mean leading , as in an orchestra , by playing the first fiddle , but leading as one does in ...
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