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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... least some sort of test to distinguish false beliefs from true . Astronomy can regularly predict : astrology cannot . And yet , to be honest , try how much you can really predict the reactions even of those you know best ; it may prove ...
... least some sort of test to distinguish false beliefs from true . Astronomy can regularly predict : astrology cannot . And yet , to be honest , try how much you can really predict the reactions even of those you know best ; it may prove ...
Pagina 8
... least sixty , some over seventy ; only 259 were got on board ; the rest deserted . ( One wretch with a wooden leg is said to have been dragged to the place of em- barkation three times over . ) A year later , after rounding Cape Horn ...
... least sixty , some over seventy ; only 259 were got on board ; the rest deserted . ( One wretch with a wooden leg is said to have been dragged to the place of em- barkation three times over . ) A year later , after rounding Cape Horn ...
Pagina 9
... least attention to delicacy . ' Or again there is Lady Louisa Stuart's description of Johnson's aristocratic friend , Topham Beauclerk , great - grandson of Charles II and Nell Gwyn , as ' what the French call “ cynique ” in personal ...
... least attention to delicacy . ' Or again there is Lady Louisa Stuart's description of Johnson's aristocratic friend , Topham Beauclerk , great - grandson of Charles II and Nell Gwyn , as ' what the French call “ cynique ” in personal ...
Pagina 11
... least they had barred the ogre from the ceremony at King's . That too is typical . For it is a vulgar error that the Age of Reason excluded violent passions . It was not so dull . With its no less typical Greek pediments ( originally ...
... least they had barred the ogre from the ceremony at King's . That too is typical . For it is a vulgar error that the Age of Reason excluded violent passions . It was not so dull . With its no less typical Greek pediments ( originally ...
Pagina 16
... least be concrete - something tangible and vivid , amid the fogs of abstraction , the drone of verbiage . Do not let us despise symbols . They can possess strange power - like that statue of Strasbourg in the Place de la Concorde which ...
... least be concrete - something tangible and vivid , amid the fogs of abstraction , the drone of verbiage . Do not let us despise symbols . They can possess strange power - like that statue of Strasbourg in the Place de la Concorde which ...
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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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