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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... remains at best a mere sketch of life's infinite complexity . We forget ; we distort — if not consciously , then unconsciously . It is sometimes possible to tell nothing but the truth ; but the whole truth - never . Even Montaigne ...
... remains at best a mere sketch of life's infinite complexity . We forget ; we distort — if not consciously , then unconsciously . It is sometimes possible to tell nothing but the truth ; but the whole truth - never . Even Montaigne ...
Pagina 15
... remains , in most eyes , a success . But , for me , he was less happily inspired to link his own imitation Gothic to the genuine Gothic of the Founder's chapel by a screen bristling with large stone pepper - pots.1 Here , however , it ...
... remains , in most eyes , a success . But , for me , he was less happily inspired to link his own imitation Gothic to the genuine Gothic of the Founder's chapel by a screen bristling with large stone pepper - pots.1 Here , however , it ...
Pagina 27
... remains what the French call - curiously enough , for it is the reverse of typical - ' un vrai type ' . The personality of Byron , no doubt , may have been for a time more dominant . To Goethe , I suppose , comparison between John- son ...
... remains what the French call - curiously enough , for it is the reverse of typical - ' un vrai type ' . The personality of Byron , no doubt , may have been for a time more dominant . To Goethe , I suppose , comparison between John- son ...
Pagina 30
... remains a less remarkable person than Johnson , and far less remarkably illumined . And Rousseau , though an exhibitionist , was that particularly deceptive type of liar who lies , above all , to himself . Curious , indeed , that one ...
... remains a less remarkable person than Johnson , and far less remarkably illumined . And Rousseau , though an exhibitionist , was that particularly deceptive type of liar who lies , above all , to himself . Curious , indeed , that one ...
Pagina 37
... remains that her death at sixty - three , after seventeen years of marriage ( in his words to Edwards a quarter of a century later ) ' almost broke my heart ' . Stoical even his agony , he might quote Euripides : οἴμοι . τί δ ̓ οἴμοι ...
... remains that her death at sixty - three , after seventeen years of marriage ( in his words to Edwards a quarter of a century later ) ' almost broke my heart ' . Stoical even his agony , he might quote Euripides : οἴμοι . τί δ ̓ οἴμοι ...
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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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