The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina iii
... remember . For this , I feel , biographies tend to grow too long . Just because one is told far more than one really needs , one remembers far less . The impression is blurred by multitudinousness ; just as one could not , says ...
... remember . For this , I feel , biographies tend to grow too long . Just because one is told far more than one really needs , one remembers far less . The impression is blurred by multitudinousness ; just as one could not , says ...
Pagina 82
... remember that the great object of remark is human life . ' ' As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich , so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise . ' Perhaps this too much disregards that simple curiosity which ...
... remember that the great object of remark is human life . ' ' As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich , so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise . ' Perhaps this too much disregards that simple curiosity which ...
Pagina 124
... remember . And what real use , except to kill time ( which is a form of murder ) , is reading that one does not remember ? Beside Johnson , Dryden seems to me often thin ; Cole- ridge , sometimes woolly ; Arnold , frequently puritanic ...
... remember . And what real use , except to kill time ( which is a form of murder ) , is reading that one does not remember ? Beside Johnson , Dryden seems to me often thin ; Cole- ridge , sometimes woolly ; Arnold , frequently puritanic ...
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