The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 79
... praise or pity ; for praise there is no room , and pity will do you no good . ' Johnson suffered ; but , as a rule , in silence . As with his melancholia , so with his other neurotic quirks . With these too he battled . He did not ...
... praise or pity ; for praise there is no room , and pity will do you no good . ' Johnson suffered ; but , as a rule , in silence . As with his melancholia , so with his other neurotic quirks . With these too he battled . He did not ...
Pagina 87
... praise as you do . For whenever there is ex- aggerated praise , every body is set against a character . They are roused to attack it . Now there is Pepys . You praised that man with such disproportion that I was incited to lessen him ...
... praise as you do . For whenever there is ex- aggerated praise , every body is set against a character . They are roused to attack it . Now there is Pepys . You praised that man with such disproportion that I was incited to lessen him ...
Pagina 301
... praise . " ' Long before Wordsworth , Goldsmith defended the value of sim- plicity , both in creation and in criticism . Unlike most critics , authors , and philosophers , he was not at all inclined to exaggerate the importance of his ...
... praise . " ' Long before Wordsworth , Goldsmith defended the value of sim- plicity , both in creation and in criticism . Unlike most critics , authors , and philosophers , he was not at all inclined to exaggerate the importance of his ...
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