The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 88
... poetry . It jarred his sin- cerity . Religion was too solemn a subject for literary frills , and clevernesses , and affectations . The addresses of poets to the Deity seemed to him , one suspects , too like ' the reciprocal civility of ...
... poetry . It jarred his sin- cerity . Religion was too solemn a subject for literary frills , and clevernesses , and affectations . The addresses of poets to the Deity seemed to him , one suspects , too like ' the reciprocal civility of ...
Pagina 124
... poetry to overdo minute details ( like many a tedious novel ) , still legions of poets rise up to testify on the ... poetry to poetry like Gilbert Murray's Ancient Greek Literature ; it does not light up old masterpieces with new ...
... poetry to overdo minute details ( like many a tedious novel ) , still legions of poets rise up to testify on the ... poetry to poetry like Gilbert Murray's Ancient Greek Literature ; it does not light up old masterpieces with new ...
Pagina 343
... poetry as ' ingenious nonsense ' , sculpture as ' stone dolls ' , or Bentham despises verse as no better than pushpin , the Iliad as in- ferior to solitaire . They cry out with repugnance - as Charlotte Brontë and Alice Meynell at Jane ...
... poetry as ' ingenious nonsense ' , sculpture as ' stone dolls ' , or Bentham despises verse as no better than pushpin , the Iliad as in- ferior to solitaire . They cry out with repugnance - as Charlotte Brontë and Alice Meynell at Jane ...
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