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( I should have thought there were plenty of others ; for instance , Villon or Rousseau or Sterne may be admirable as writers , but hardly as men . ) ' His work is universally allowed to be interesting , instructive , eminently original ...
( I should have thought there were plenty of others ; for instance , Villon or Rousseau or Sterne may be admirable as writers , but hardly as men . ) ' His work is universally allowed to be interesting , instructive , eminently original ...
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admirable human being . Sometimes it is the sick oyster that produces the pearl . Macaulay's paradox that Boswell produced a supreme biography because he was a supreme ass , extravagantly as Macaulay chose to put it , does not seem to ...
admirable human being . Sometimes it is the sick oyster that produces the pearl . Macaulay's paradox that Boswell produced a supreme biography because he was a supreme ass , extravagantly as Macaulay chose to put it , does not seem to ...
Pagina 278
And so there remains , I think , this much truth in Macaulay's paradox , that some of the most admirable qualities in Boswell's works are due to qualities in his own character that are not admirable at all , but morbid ; just as ...
And so there remains , I think , this much truth in Macaulay's paradox , that some of the most admirable qualities in Boswell's works are due to qualities in his own character that are not admirable at all , but morbid ; just as ...
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