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Or , again , there is that design for 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 ...
Or , again , there is that design for 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 ...
Pagina 106
to - day , as 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 ...
to - day , as 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 ...
Pagina 271
Above all 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 ...
Above all 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 ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1961 |
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