The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 59
... Humour , 16 ; Wit , 15 ; 4 Person , Voice , 5 Manners , Good Humour , o . ' Secondly , an anti - Johnsonian might argue , not only was Johnson , as Taine said , an ' ours bourru ' . He was also , by his own confession , hardly sane . He ...
... Humour , 16 ; Wit , 15 ; 4 Person , Voice , 5 Manners , Good Humour , o . ' Secondly , an anti - Johnsonian might argue , not only was Johnson , as Taine said , an ' ours bourru ' . He was also , by his own confession , hardly sane . He ...
Pagina 102
... humour and gaiety , suspect that no man can be really wise who is never gay . For constant seriousness implies that he takes many things far more seriously than they really deserve . The body that loses the power to relax , grows sick ...
... humour and gaiety , suspect that no man can be really wise who is never gay . For constant seriousness implies that he takes many things far more seriously than they really deserve . The body that loses the power to relax , grows sick ...
Pagina 335
... humour of Johnson's preposterously sombre prologue , like a skeleton ushering in a feast . Prest by the load of life , the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind . Did ever comedy have such a Dead March for overture ? No ...
... humour of Johnson's preposterously sombre prologue , like a skeleton ushering in a feast . Prest by the load of life , the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind . Did ever comedy have such a Dead March for overture ? No ...
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