The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1961 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 270
... dead from the waist up , dead in heart and mind . One of Boswell's best qualities was his pulsating interest in human character . With his childish absurdities went a childlike eagerness and wonder at the strangeness of life and people ...
... dead from the waist up , dead in heart and mind . One of Boswell's best qualities was his pulsating interest in human character . With his childish absurdities went a childlike eagerness and wonder at the strangeness of life and people ...
Pagina 274
... dead metaphor . But even dead metaphors can be dangerous . Few of us , no doubt , believe that Homer had the Iliad dictated to him by a young lady in white linen called a Muse ; 1 many of us 274 BOSWELL.
... dead metaphor . But even dead metaphors can be dangerous . Few of us , no doubt , believe that Homer had the Iliad dictated to him by a young lady in white linen called a Muse ; 1 many of us 274 BOSWELL.
Pagina 330
... dead ; remembering the greater dead whom they might have equalled , and who are equalled with them now ; remembering , too , that far - off voice of Lucretius proclaiming the adamantine finality of death itself . For them no more the ...
... dead ; remembering the greater dead whom they might have equalled , and who are equalled with them now ; remembering , too , that far - off voice of Lucretius proclaiming the adamantine finality of death itself . For them no more the ...
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