The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1961 - 354 pagini |
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... English writers , or in all English history and biography , or in all English fiction and drama , it may be doubted if there is any character that has more stamped itself on English memories than Johnson . There have been men with ...
... English writers , or in all English history and biography , or in all English fiction and drama , it may be doubted if there is any character that has more stamped itself on English memories than Johnson . There have been men with ...
Pagina 126
... English are perhaps specially prone to self - deception . We have a reputation for mental dishonesty . And it is an unpleasant one . Still this vice may be , in part , due to a virtue . It could be argued that there is more public and ...
... English are perhaps specially prone to self - deception . We have a reputation for mental dishonesty . And it is an unpleasant one . Still this vice may be , in part , due to a virtue . It could be argued that there is more public and ...
Pagina 265
... English language . Westminster has associa- tions with English at its best , Whitechapel with English not at its best ; they are therefore far more pointed and relevant than Dover and Calais . In short , Boswell has here by no means ...
... English language . Westminster has associa- tions with English at its best , Whitechapel with English not at its best ; they are therefore far more pointed and relevant than Dover and Calais . In short , Boswell has here by no means ...
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