The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 169
... turn to satire and contempt , and a strong tendency to argumentation and contradiction . But I had been but a very little in the world , before I found that this would by no means do . ' He did not wish to see his son ' illiberally ...
... turn to satire and contempt , and a strong tendency to argumentation and contradiction . But I had been but a very little in the world , before I found that this would by no means do . ' He did not wish to see his son ' illiberally ...
Pagina 190
... turn my periods smoothly and imperceptibly like a skilful wheelwright turning tops in a turning - loom . There's fancy 190 BOSWELL.
... turn my periods smoothly and imperceptibly like a skilful wheelwright turning tops in a turning - loom . There's fancy 190 BOSWELL.
Pagina 191
... turning tops in a turning - loom . There's fancy ! There's simile ! In short , I am at present a genius : in that does my opulence consist , and not in base metal . ' That such absurdities could make Boswell think himself a genius is ...
... turning tops in a turning - loom . There's fancy ! There's simile ! In short , I am at present a genius : in that does my opulence consist , and not in base metal . ' That such absurdities could make Boswell think himself a genius is ...
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