The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1961 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 163
... 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 - so utterly different , though under almost identical ...
... 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 - so utterly different , though under almost identical ...
Pagina 277
... 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.1 The tragedy of transi- ence ...
... 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.1 The tragedy of transi- ence ...
Pagina 315
... imagine that all Athens went clothed in sackcloth and ashes . The marble of Æschylus they ex- change for brick ; the ivory of Sophocles , for bone . And they do it with ' disgusting solemnity ' . Anyone who attempts blank verse will be ...
... imagine that all Athens went clothed in sackcloth and ashes . The marble of Æschylus they ex- change for brick ; the ivory of Sophocles , for bone . And they do it with ' disgusting solemnity ' . Anyone who attempts blank verse will be ...
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