The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 140
... success . All this is clever and entertaining . Yet a Greek might have trem- bled to read it . What perilous pride ... successes . One of Chesterfield's speeches was in Horace Walpole's judg- ment the best he had ever heard . Perhaps the ...
... success . All this is clever and entertaining . Yet a Greek might have trem- bled to read it . What perilous pride ... successes . One of Chesterfield's speeches was in Horace Walpole's judg- ment the best he had ever heard . Perhaps the ...
Pagina 250
... success he craved in active life ; though success beyond his dreams awaited him in literature . Constantly Boswell makes one recall ' le violon d'Ingres ' - the error of those who pique themselves on powers they lack , at the expense of ...
... success he craved in active life ; though success beyond his dreams awaited him in literature . Constantly Boswell makes one recall ' le violon d'Ingres ' - the error of those who pique themselves on powers they lack , at the expense of ...
Pagina 257
... success , and happiness . The vain lure of social , legal , and political distinction in London had wiled him away from his home in Scotland , from his wife , from his only chance of making a success of his own life as well as of ...
... success , and happiness . The vain lure of social , legal , and political distinction in London had wiled him away from his home in Scotland , from his wife , from his only chance of making a success of his own life as well as of ...
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