The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke ...
... imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke ...
Pagina 267
... imagine , partly ethical , partly æsthetic . It was his duty to tell the strange truth ; but he also loved it . He adored oddities . He hunted lions . And of course a lion - hunter will not want to cut their claws ; he is more likely to ...
... imagine , partly ethical , partly æsthetic . It was his duty to tell the strange truth ; but he also loved it . He adored oddities . He hunted lions . And of course a lion - hunter will not want to cut their claws ; he is more likely to ...
Pagina 277
... imagine how a man could find it worth while to spend all these months writing about himself , nor how , even if he did , he could imagine it would be endurable to spend months more reading about himself.1 The tragedy of transi- ence ...
... imagine how a man could find it worth while to spend all these months writing about himself , nor how , even if he did , he could imagine it would be endurable to spend months more reading about himself.1 The tragedy of transi- ence ...
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