The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] Goldsmith |
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The living interest lies far less in facts than in 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 ...
The living interest lies far less in facts than in 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 ...
Pagina 67
... political 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 ...
... political 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 ...
Pagina 91
There is , for example , that famous peroration on Marathon and Iona ; or that burst of unexpectedly romantic zest which describes the scenery of Hawkestone the ideas which it forces upon the mind are , the sublime , the dreadful ...
There is , for example , that famous peroration on Marathon and Iona ; or that burst of unexpectedly romantic zest which describes the scenery of Hawkestone the ideas which it forces upon the mind are , the sublime , the dreadful ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1961 |
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