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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... curious contrast to the work of the two and a half centuries before . By its own efforts , and by Royal Commissions , the University may have been 1 Even so , the actual fabric is less grandiose than Gibbs's design , which has dozens of ...
... curious contrast to the work of the two and a half centuries before . By its own efforts , and by Royal Commissions , the University may have been 1 Even so , the actual fabric is less grandiose than Gibbs's design , which has dozens of ...
Pagina 17
... curious thing about periods in general that , however violently contemporary writers and artists may often loathe or despise one another , in after - ages the critic can generally date their work at a glance . Despite their wranglings ...
... curious thing about periods in general that , however violently contemporary writers and artists may often loathe or despise one another , in after - ages the critic can generally date their work at a glance . Despite their wranglings ...
Pagina 18
... curiosity which provides the only impulse for much history and much science . Curiosity , no doubt , is ... curious example of futile investigation in Dr and Mrs Kennedy , who were living in Derbyshire about 1774 and ' were ...
... curiosity which provides the only impulse for much history and much science . Curiosity , no doubt , is ... curious example of futile investigation in Dr and Mrs Kennedy , who were living in Derbyshire about 1774 and ' were ...
Pagina 20
... curious about nothing is to be nearly dead ; to be curious about too few things , is to be narrow ; to be curious about too many , is to be shallow . The kind of general- knowledge questions beloved by some schoolmasters and journa ...
... curious about nothing is to be nearly dead ; to be curious about too few things , is to be narrow ; to be curious about too many , is to be shallow . The kind of general- knowledge questions beloved by some schoolmasters and journa ...
Pagina 22
... curiously prophetic . Many minds , of course , enjoy the fantastic and the in- sane . That is a matter of taste ; and therefore vain to argue over ; but one can argue that , in the long run , the consequences of such pleasures are apt ...
... curiously prophetic . Many minds , of course , enjoy the fantastic and the in- sane . That is a matter of taste ; and therefore vain to argue over ; but one can argue that , in the long run , the consequences of such pleasures are apt ...
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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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