The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1961 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 33
... appears , only to talk of her husband's affairs , and did so ' with complaint , fear , and suspicion ' ; whereas Michael Johnson loathed his affairs , and preferred books ; of which his wife knew nothing . In short , ' they seldom ...
... appears , only to talk of her husband's affairs , and did so ' with complaint , fear , and suspicion ' ; whereas Michael Johnson loathed his affairs , and preferred books ; of which his wife knew nothing . In short , ' they seldom ...
Pagina 73
... appears that George ( though finding a great part of Shakespeare ' sad stuff ' ) yet used to enter in notebooks Shakespearian quotations appropriate to persons or happenings he had known ; and in 1778 he applied to Johnson the lines ...
... appears that George ( though finding a great part of Shakespeare ' sad stuff ' ) yet used to enter in notebooks Shakespearian quotations appropriate to persons or happenings he had known ; and in 1778 he applied to Johnson the lines ...
Pagina 102
... appear an in- congruous and questionable witness ; but he is confirmed by Arthur Murphy , who calls Johnson ' incomparable at buffoonery ' ; and by Fanny Burney - ' he has more fun and comical humour and love of nonsense about him than ...
... appear an in- congruous and questionable witness ; but he is confirmed by Arthur Murphy , who calls Johnson ' incomparable at buffoonery ' ; and by Fanny Burney - ' he has more fun and comical humour and love of nonsense about him than ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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