The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 128
... deal ; they made his states of mind a good deal less valuable and enviable , if much more picturesque . Thirdly , he is an example of bad style , as well as of good . At times his heavier writings become a dreary landscape measured only ...
... deal ; they made his states of mind a good deal less valuable and enviable , if much more picturesque . Thirdly , he is an example of bad style , as well as of good . At times his heavier writings become a dreary landscape measured only ...
Pagina 147
... deal more polish , and more acquaintance with the Graces ; but he re- mained , in essentials , much the same . The true end of existence , Chesterfield seems often to imply , is to make ' a figure in the world ' . A pretty worthless ...
... deal more polish , and more acquaintance with the Graces ; but he re- mained , in essentials , much the same . The true end of existence , Chesterfield seems often to imply , is to make ' a figure in the world ' . A pretty worthless ...
Pagina 298
... deal better than Mr John Dickens . But of course the Vicar has also a good deal of Goldsmith himself — the same mixture of simplicity and shrewdness , gentleness and irony . ' As some men gaze with admiration at the colours of a tulip ...
... deal better than Mr John Dickens . But of course the Vicar has also a good deal of Goldsmith himself — the same mixture of simplicity and shrewdness , gentleness and irony . ' As some men gaze with admiration at the colours of a tulip ...
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