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 80
... wonder that Boswell saw him as ' a mighty gladiator ' , contending always in the Coliseum with wild beasts which he could never kill , only drive back for the moment to their dens ; little wonder that Johnson himself could say to Dr ...
... wonder that Boswell saw him as ' a mighty gladiator ' , contending always in the Coliseum with wild beasts which he could never kill , only drive back for the moment to their dens ; little wonder that Johnson himself could say to Dr ...
Pagina 105
... wonder , Sir , you have not more pleasure in writing than in not writing . ' Johnson . ' Sir , you may wonder . ' After all , Johnson's talk was far more than merely ' idle ' . He hated that empty discursiveness which passes with most ...
... wonder , Sir , you have not more pleasure in writing than in not writing . ' Johnson . ' Sir , you may wonder . ' After all , Johnson's talk was far more than merely ' idle ' . He hated that empty discursiveness which passes with most ...
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