The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and GoldsmithBloomsbury Publishing, 19 nov. 2015 - 384 pagini Best known for his guide on writing and recognizing good prose, Style (1955), F.L. Lucas addresses four of the most popular 18th-century English poets and writers in this book: Samuel Johnson, Lord Chesterfield, James Boswell and Oliver Goldsmith. Knowledgeably, conversationally, and often amusing, he sketches the images of men who greatly influenced 18th century England and its literary landscape. |
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... become our guides and , sometimes , our friends . My thanks are due to the McGraw - Hill Book Company and to Messrs Heinemann for permission to quote extensively from Boswell's Private Papers ( privately printed in the USA in nineteen ...
... become our guides and , sometimes , our friends . My thanks are due to the McGraw - Hill Book Company and to Messrs Heinemann for permission to quote extensively from Boswell's Private Papers ( privately printed in the USA in nineteen ...
Pagina 5
... become , even this may not be overdrawn . And we have seen what Marxists make of history . ' Not God Himself , ' said the Greek tragedian , ' can make the past undone . ' But in Russia they do it every few years . Perhaps if we knew ...
... become , even this may not be overdrawn . And we have seen what Marxists make of history . ' Not God Himself , ' said the Greek tragedian , ' can make the past undone . ' But in Russia they do it every few years . Perhaps if we knew ...
Pagina 6
... become common enough to romanticize the age of neo- classicism : 1 Fernand Gregh . Comme vous meurtrissez les cœurs De vos airs charmants et moqueurs Et si tristes , Menuets à peine entendus , Sanglots légers , rires fondus , Baisers ...
... become common enough to romanticize the age of neo- classicism : 1 Fernand Gregh . Comme vous meurtrissez les cœurs De vos airs charmants et moqueurs Et si tristes , Menuets à peine entendus , Sanglots légers , rires fondus , Baisers ...
Pagina 7
... that he might like to become ' Greek Professor at one of our Universities ' . ' It is a very pretty sinecure , and requires very little know- where press - ganged wretches , with teeth dropping out. J THE EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY MIND.
... that he might like to become ' Greek Professor at one of our Universities ' . ' It is a very pretty sinecure , and requires very little know- where press - ganged wretches , with teeth dropping out. J THE EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY MIND.
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... become a motor- packed highway , where night is made garish by the City Council with cadaverous sodium - lighting . And , beyond , it has planted a College Hostel in the familiar brick - box style of a war - bled , im- poverished ...
... become a motor- packed highway , where night is made garish by the City Council with cadaverous sodium - lighting . And , beyond , it has planted a College Hostel in the familiar brick - box style of a war - bled , im- poverished ...
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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 |
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