The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] Goldsmith |
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1 In what world , one wonders , do people live who can imagine such nonsense ? I used to guess that , in making men what they become , the influence of nature and of nurture might perhaps be roughly equal ; watching my children grow up ...
1 In what world , one wonders , do people live who can imagine such nonsense ? I used to guess that , in making men what they become , the influence of nature and of nurture might perhaps be roughly equal ; watching my children grow up ...
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But , personally , I can neither imagine how a man could find it worth while to spend all these months writing about himself , nor how , even if he did , he could imagine it would be endurable to spend months more reading about himself ...
But , personally , I can neither imagine how a man could find it worth while to spend all these months writing about himself , nor how , even if he did , he could imagine it would be endurable to spend months more reading about himself ...
Pagina 298
The use of the first person in fiction has drawbacks and dangers ; but here one cannot imagine any other technique being adopted without ruining the book . Dr Primrose is , among other things , one of those excellent comic characters ...
The use of the first person in fiction has drawbacks and dangers ; but here one cannot imagine any other technique being adopted without ruining the book . Dr Primrose is , among other things , one of those excellent comic characters ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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