The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] Goldsmith |
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Perhaps our posterity may one day 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 ...
Perhaps our posterity may one day 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 ...
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Little 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 ...
Little 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 ...
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It did not occur to Chester- field to 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 ...
It did not occur to Chester- field to 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 ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1961 |
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