The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 19
... wonder as much at the excess of superfluities we cram into our heads , as we wonder now at the excess of super- fluities our ancestors crammed into their bellies . Many of them over - ate : many of us over - read . Few moderns are good ...
... wonder as much at the excess of superfluities we cram into our heads , as we wonder now at the excess of super- fluities our ancestors crammed into their bellies . Many of them over - ate : many of us over - read . Few moderns are good ...
Pagina 108
... wonder that , reading the poem aloud , Johnson himself was at moments moved to tears . On the other hand , I do wonder at Scott's verdict on these two poems that he had more pleasure in reading London and The Vanity of Human Wishes than ...
... wonder that , reading the poem aloud , Johnson himself was at moments moved to tears . On the other hand , I do wonder at Scott's verdict on these two poems that he had more pleasure in reading London and The Vanity of Human Wishes than ...
Pagina 145
... wonder whether a better educated Shakespeare would neces- sarily have produced all the beauties whose unlaboured spontaneity we admire . But from Chesterfield's pedagogic zeal not even vegetables were safe . Of his melons , grapes , and ...
... wonder whether a better educated Shakespeare would neces- sarily have produced all the beauties whose unlaboured spontaneity we admire . But from Chesterfield's pedagogic zeal not even vegetables were safe . Of his melons , grapes , and ...
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