The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... ideas , in minds , in personalities . Yet can we hope really to grasp the minds of the dead ? We stand frustrated like Æneas , face to face in burning Troy with the phantom of the wife he loved : Ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia ...
... ideas , in minds , in personalities . Yet can we hope really to grasp the minds of the dead ? We stand frustrated like Æneas , face to face in burning Troy with the phantom of the wife he loved : Ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia ...
Pagina 67
... ideas do not seem more than a blend of prejudices , commonsense , and ( sometimes ) humanity ; just as his religious ideas seem largely a blend of forlorn hope and nightmare . Of the arts Johnson knew little , apart from literature ...
... ideas do not seem more than a blend of prejudices , commonsense , and ( sometimes ) humanity ; just as his religious ideas seem largely a blend of forlorn hope and nightmare . Of the arts Johnson knew little , apart from literature ...
Pagina 89
... idea ; though one may gladly own that , without Johnson , many ideas would have been far less forcibly hammered into the thickness of the human skull . Why , then , did Reynolds say ( and very possibly with truth ) of this often ...
... idea ; though one may gladly own that , without Johnson , many ideas would have been far less forcibly hammered into the thickness of the human skull . Why , then , did Reynolds say ( and very possibly with truth ) of this often ...
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