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 A 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 A doubted if there is any character that has more stamped itself on English memories than Johnson . There have been men with ...
Pagina 28
... English characters ; he is also one of the most English . It is , you will find , not easy to acclimatize foreigners to him . They are apt to ask wonderingly what on earth we see in such a man . They do not understand what seems to them ...
... English characters ; he is also one of the most English . It is , you will find , not easy to acclimatize foreigners to him . They are apt to ask wonderingly what on earth we see in such a man . They do not understand what seems to them ...
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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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE I | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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