The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1961 - 354 pagini |
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... style and tone , more revealing than all their recorded actions ; which may have had a dozen possible motives , now un- knowable . The style is the man . I have chosen these characters , first , because they seem to me fascinating in ...
... style and tone , more revealing than all their recorded actions ; which may have had a dozen possible motives , now un- knowable . The style is the man . I have chosen these characters , first , because they seem to me fascinating in ...
Pagina 90
... style . He could put things so clearly , so forcibly , so tellingly , he could produce arguments and analogies with such lightning promptitude that , quite apart from his air of Jupiter Tonans , he was extremely hard to argue with . He ...
... style . He could put things so clearly , so forcibly , so tellingly , he could produce arguments and analogies with such lightning promptitude that , quite apart from his air of Jupiter Tonans , he was extremely hard to argue with . He ...
Pagina 92
... style . There are also times when Johnson's exalted turgidity succeeds by an amusingly mock - heroic effect , in ironic contrast to the triviali- ties it treats of ; like the burlesque epic style in Pope's Rape of the Lock . Some mouse ...
... style . There are also times when Johnson's exalted turgidity succeeds by an amusingly mock - heroic effect , in ironic contrast to the triviali- ties it treats of ; like the burlesque epic style in Pope's Rape of the Lock . Some mouse ...
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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