The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1961 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 183
... Boswell . ' I doubt if such a claim was ever true of any man since Adam . It is certainly not true of Boswell . And even if it were true ? Are men's merits to be judged by Gallup polls ? Not everyone liked Johnson — far from it ; does ...
... Boswell . ' I doubt if such a claim was ever true of any man since Adam . It is certainly not true of Boswell . And even if it were true ? Are men's merits to be judged by Gallup polls ? Not everyone liked Johnson — far from it ; does ...
Pagina 276
... Boswell produced a supreme biography because he was a supreme ass , extravagantly as Macaulay chose to put it , does not seem to me quite so foolish as is generally assumed . The success of Boswell's biography does partly arise , as I ...
... Boswell produced a supreme biography because he was a supreme ass , extravagantly as Macaulay chose to put it , does not seem to me quite so foolish as is generally assumed . The success of Boswell's biography does partly arise , as I ...
Pagina 350
... Boswell , David , 246 , 248 Boswell , Euphemia , 184 , 253-4 Boswell , James , 179–282 ; ( 1 ) Life : ancestry , 183 ; in London , 184 , 189–92 , 242-4 , 246-8 , 251-7 ; meeting with Johnson , 44 , 191–2 ; in Holland , 192–5 ; Zélide ...
... Boswell , David , 246 , 248 Boswell , Euphemia , 184 , 253-4 Boswell , James , 179–282 ; ( 1 ) Life : ancestry , 183 ; in London , 184 , 189–92 , 242-4 , 246-8 , 251-7 ; meeting with Johnson , 44 , 191–2 ; in Holland , 192–5 ; Zélide ...
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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