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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... marry one of his natural daughters: he took the living; and my father dying soon after, he dispensed with himself from taking the wife, but he was so generous as to give her very near one year's income of the living.” (She was reduced ...
... marry one of his natural daughters: he took the living; and my father dying soon after, he dispensed with himself from taking the wife, but he was so generous as to give her very near one year's income of the living.” (She was reduced ...
Pagina 35
... a provoked tinker; which his neighbours jeered at as “The Battle of Bosworth'. (Another version of the story substitutes George II for Queen Caroline.) * In the marriage-bond her age appears more politely as D 35 JoHNson.
... a provoked tinker; which his neighbours jeered at as “The Battle of Bosworth'. (Another version of the story substitutes George II for Queen Caroline.) * In the marriage-bond her age appears more politely as D 35 JoHNson.
Pagina 36
... marriage to a widow of forty-six," Mrs Porter, the daughter of a Warwickshire squire, and more familiar to us as 'dear Tetty'—'pretty thing'— 'pretty charmer'—'pretty dear creature'. Thanks to the mischievous Garrick, generations have ...
... marriage to a widow of forty-six," Mrs Porter, the daughter of a Warwickshire squire, and more familiar to us as 'dear Tetty'—'pretty thing'— 'pretty charmer'—'pretty dear creature'. Thanks to the mischievous Garrick, generations have ...
Pagina 37
... marriage. True, they disputed (so he told Mrs Thrale) perpetually'. Tetty was too fussy for Samuel about tidiness—a slave to her own besom; so that one day, weary of her praises of clean floors, he suggested they should have a touch at ...
... marriage. True, they disputed (so he told Mrs Thrale) perpetually'. Tetty was too fussy for Samuel about tidiness—a slave to her own besom; so that one day, weary of her praises of clean floors, he suggested they should have a touch at ...
Pagina 38
... marriage brought little relief to Johnson's thirty years' war with poverty. His academy at Edial failed— no doubt this uncouth eccentric, with his tics and grimaces, seemed too forbidding even to eighteenth-century parents." Hence in ...
... marriage brought little relief to Johnson's thirty years' war with poverty. His academy at Edial failed— no doubt this uncouth eccentric, with his tics and grimaces, seemed too forbidding even to eighteenth-century parents." Hence in ...
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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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