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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... sometimes , our friends . My thanks are due to the McGraw - Hill Book Company and to Messrs Heinemann for permission to quote extensively from Boswell's Private Papers ( privately printed in the USA in nineteen volumes , 1928-37 , and ...
... sometimes , our friends . My thanks are due to the McGraw - Hill Book Company and to Messrs Heinemann for permission to quote extensively from Boswell's Private Papers ( privately printed in the USA in nineteen volumes , 1928-37 , and ...
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... his room , imagining that they sympathetically understand him . That seems extreme . For , after all , 1 Flaubert . we can sometimes foretell the behaviour of those we think. Z Introductory: The Eighteenth-Century Mind.
... his room , imagining that they sympathetically understand him . That seems extreme . For , after all , 1 Flaubert . we can sometimes foretell the behaviour of those we think. Z Introductory: The Eighteenth-Century Mind.
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... sometimes possible to tell nothing but the truth ; but the whole truth - never . Even Montaigne sometimes misleads ; even Rousseau , though unblushing in his exhibitionism , is quite untrustworthy . Pepys , indeed , and Boswell ...
... sometimes possible to tell nothing but the truth ; but the whole truth - never . Even Montaigne sometimes misleads ; even Rousseau , though unblushing in his exhibitionism , is quite untrustworthy . Pepys , indeed , and Boswell ...
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... sometimes seem to speak dogmatically , I presuppose , from first to last , the vanity of all dogmatizing . Such doubts apply particularly to that generalizing kind of history which tries to seize the spirit of a whole period . No two ...
... sometimes seem to speak dogmatically , I presuppose , from first to last , the vanity of all dogmatizing . Such doubts apply particularly to that generalizing kind of history which tries to seize the spirit of a whole period . No two ...
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... sometimes in the past , sometimes in the future ; though they are really to be found only at the foot of the rainbow . ' It has become common enough to romanticize the age of neo- classicism : 1 Fernand Gregh . Comme vous meurtrissez ...
... sometimes in the past , sometimes in the future ; though they are really to be found only at the foot of the rainbow . ' It has become common enough to romanticize the age of neo- classicism : 1 Fernand Gregh . Comme vous meurtrissez ...
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