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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... heart Lies a thought further than another man's.1 Again , anyone who pictures what his own biography would look like , were it worth writing , must surely realize how much it would infallibly misrepresent , how much it would ignore ...
... heart Lies a thought further than another man's.1 Again , anyone who pictures what his own biography would look like , were it worth writing , must surely realize how much it would infallibly misrepresent , how much it would ignore ...
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... heart of my Mysterie ; you would sound mee from my lowest Note , to the top of my Compasse .... Why do you thinke , that I am easier to bee plaid on , then a Pipe ? ' Historians are seldom sceptical enough . There is a well - known ...
... heart of my Mysterie ; you would sound mee from my lowest Note , to the top of my Compasse .... Why do you thinke , that I am easier to bee plaid on , then a Pipe ? ' Historians are seldom sceptical enough . There is a well - known ...
Pagina 29
... heart open before him . But the truth is , that such were the simple friendships of the Golden Age , and are now the friendships only of children . Very few can boast of hearts which they dare lay open to themselves , and of which , by ...
... heart open before him . But the truth is , that such were the simple friendships of the Golden Age , and are now the friendships only of children . Very few can boast of hearts which they dare lay open to themselves , and of which , by ...
Pagina 32
... heart ; take the talk out of Boswell's Hebrides , and it would be little superior to Johnson's own account of the same tour . Johnson is , above all , a dramatic character - the infinitely versatile protagonist of a series of dramatic ...
... heart ; take the talk out of Boswell's Hebrides , and it would be little superior to Johnson's own account of the same tour . Johnson is , above all , a dramatic character - the infinitely versatile protagonist of a series of dramatic ...
Pagina 37
... heart ' . Stoical even his agony , he might quote Euripides : οἴμοι . τί δ ̓ οἴμοι ; θνῆτα γὰρ πεπόνθαμεν . Alas ! Yet why ' alas ! ?? Man's life is such . But when he saw the sea at Brighthelmstone ( so he writes in 1770 ) the wish ...
... heart ' . Stoical even his agony , he might quote Euripides : οἴμοι . τί δ ̓ οἴμοι ; θνῆτα γὰρ πεπόνθαμεν . Alas ! Yet why ' alas ! ?? Man's life is such . But when he saw the sea at Brighthelmstone ( so he writes in 1770 ) the wish ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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