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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... feel , biographies tend to grow too long . Just because one is told far more than one really needs , one remembers far less . The impression is blurred by multitudinousness ; just as one could not , says Aristotle ( with a flash of ...
... feel , biographies tend to grow too long . Just because one is told far more than one really needs , one remembers far less . The impression is blurred by multitudinousness ; just as one could not , says Aristotle ( with a flash of ...
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... feel , at moments , dismayed by doubts of her . Is she , perhaps , only loquacious liar , a deceitful baggage , after all ? We can trust History , no doubt , for billions of bare facts . Yet how bare are bare facts ! The living interest ...
... feel , at moments , dismayed by doubts of her . Is she , perhaps , only loquacious liar , a deceitful baggage , after all ? We can trust History , no doubt , for billions of bare facts . Yet how bare are bare facts ! The living interest ...
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... feel them closer to us than many of the living . We may have far more sense of contact and sympathy with Homer , despite three thousand years , than with Hitler . And yet even with the best loved figures of the past what gulfs can ...
... feel them closer to us than many of the living . We may have far more sense of contact and sympathy with Homer , despite three thousand years , than with Hitler . And yet even with the best loved figures of the past what gulfs can ...
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... feel ' in every sentence . I merely wish to make clear that , though I may sometimes seem to speak dogmatically , I presuppose , from first to last , the vanity of all dogmatizing . Such doubts apply particularly to that generalizing ...
... feel ' in every sentence . I merely wish to make clear that , though I may sometimes seem to speak dogmatically , I presuppose , from first to last , the vanity of all dogmatizing . Such doubts apply particularly to that generalizing ...
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... feel , has largely lost . They speak for their age as the Parthenon for the grace of Greece , the Pont du Gard for the iron resolution of Rome . These things are civilized . If we are temp- ted at moments into doubt or disillusion about ...
... feel , has largely lost . They speak for their age as the Parthenon for the grace of Greece , the Pont du Gard for the iron resolution of Rome . These things are civilized . If we are temp- ted at moments into doubt or disillusion about ...
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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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