The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1961 - 354 pagini |
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... Thrale , succeeded , after prolonged efforts , in eating himself to death . And Mrs Thrale , with forty years behind her , but forty more to come - a little vulgar perhaps , but clever , charming , bouncing with vitality - felt a very ...
... Thrale , succeeded , after prolonged efforts , in eating himself to death . And Mrs Thrale , with forty years behind her , but forty more to come - a little vulgar perhaps , but clever , charming , bouncing with vitality - felt a very ...
Pagina 47
... Thrale's mar- riage so brutally , when his own marriage had been even odder . For he had himself been obscure , like Piozzi ; Tetty had been socially and financially his superior , old enough to be his mother , and the actual mother of ...
... Thrale's mar- riage so brutally , when his own marriage had been even odder . For he had himself been obscure , like Piozzi ; Tetty had been socially and financially his superior , old enough to be his mother , and the actual mother of ...
Pagina 88
... Thrale's phrase elsewhere , his arti- ficiality disgusted ' a Man who has seen all sorts of Tricks and who can be pleased with nothing but Nature ' ; secondly , I suspect , be- cause Johnson was jealous of his intimacy with Mrs Thrale ...
... Thrale's phrase elsewhere , his arti- ficiality disgusted ' a Man who has seen all sorts of Tricks and who can be pleased with nothing but Nature ' ; secondly , I suspect , be- cause Johnson was jealous of his intimacy with Mrs Thrale ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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