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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... criticism of this type - like much other criticism - throws less light on the subject than on the critic himself . A light not always impressive . The eighteenth century , for the moment , is less out of favour than the nineteenth . It ...
... criticism of this type - like much other criticism - throws less light on the subject than on the critic himself . A light not always impressive . The eighteenth century , for the moment , is less out of favour than the nineteenth . It ...
Pagina 10
... criticism once put it , an inverted sow with legs in air ; but , as with its saintly founder , the true beauty lives within . To west of it stands , in contrast , the quieter grace of the seven- teenth century — not towering heavenward ...
... criticism once put it , an inverted sow with legs in air ; but , as with its saintly founder , the true beauty lives within . To west of it stands , in contrast , the quieter grace of the seven- teenth century — not towering heavenward ...
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... criticize , I feel bound to add , however inadequately , a word on the other side . Human beings matter even more than buildings . And if King's College seems to me to have failed since 1800 ( more by the fault of the age than its own ) ...
... criticize , I feel bound to add , however inadequately , a word on the other side . Human beings matter even more than buildings . And if King's College seems to me to have failed since 1800 ( more by the fault of the age than its own ) ...
Pagina 17
... critic can generally date their work at a glance . Despite their wranglings , the stamp of their period somehow rests upon them all . Now the stamp of any period may be largely moulded by vast impersonal forces ; but I suspect that it ...
... critic can generally date their work at a glance . Despite their wranglings , the stamp of their period somehow rests upon them all . Now the stamp of any period may be largely moulded by vast impersonal forces ; but I suspect that it ...
Pagina 21
... archæologists , critics , cultural obsessions , Greek , Latin , history , senility , museums , libraries , and the tourist industry ' . eighteenth - century cockfights , pugilists , or hangings at. 22 THE EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY MIND.
... archæologists , critics , cultural obsessions , Greek , Latin , history , senility , museums , libraries , and the tourist industry ' . eighteenth - century cockfights , pugilists , or hangings at. 22 THE EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY MIND.
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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 - 1961 |
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