The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1961 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 22
... course , enjoy the fantastic and the in- sane . That is a matter of taste ; and therefore vain to argue over ; but one can argue that , in the long run , the consequences of such pleasures are apt to be very far from pleasant . However ...
... course , enjoy the fantastic and the in- sane . That is a matter of taste ; and therefore vain to argue over ; but one can argue that , in the long run , the consequences of such pleasures are apt to be very far from pleasant . However ...
Pagina 241
... course to enter everything in his journal . True , he adopted the feeble disguise of writing words , or groups of words , in Greek characters.1 But it hardly needed a wife of Margaret's intelligence to penetrate such frail sub- terfuges ...
... course to enter everything in his journal . True , he adopted the feeble disguise of writing words , or groups of words , in Greek characters.1 But it hardly needed a wife of Margaret's intelligence to penetrate such frail sub- terfuges ...
Pagina 297
... course , the plot creaks . What more conventional , yet impossible , than this story of an eighteenth - century Job vexed by Satan in the shape of a wicked young squire , who seduces his elder daughter under pretence of a sham marriage ...
... course , the plot creaks . What more conventional , yet impossible , than this story of an eighteenth - century Job vexed by Satan in the shape of a wicked young squire , who seduces his elder daughter under pretence of a sham marriage ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE | 1 |
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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