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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... talk to any purpose about the spirits of whole ages ? * Certainly it is difficult and dangerous . For example , our shelves groan with works on the spirit of the Renaissance ; yet now we are asked to doubt if the Renaissance ever ...
... talk to any purpose about the spirits of whole ages ? * Certainly it is difficult and dangerous . For example , our shelves groan with works on the spirit of the Renaissance ; yet now we are asked to doubt if the Renaissance ever ...
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... talk of " the eighteenth - century mind " . But a century does not have a mind -it has millions of minds - all changing year by year , day by day , hour by hour . The spirit of an age no more exists than the Cock Lane Ghost ; and ...
... talk of " the eighteenth - century mind " . But a century does not have a mind -it has millions of minds - all changing year by year , day by day , hour by hour . The spirit of an age no more exists than the Cock Lane Ghost ; and ...
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... talk and writings , and by others , particularly Boswell , who observed him vividly in real life . Familiar talk , in fine , provided a man can talk , 1 ' No transaction ' seems a little strong . • Boswell indeed , especially in his ...
... talk and writings , and by others , particularly Boswell , who observed him vividly in real life . Familiar talk , in fine , provided a man can talk , 1 ' No transaction ' seems a little strong . • Boswell indeed , especially in his ...
Pagina 31
... talk of great men is seldom preserved . We have , it is true , such books as Coleridge's Table - talk , or Goethe's conversations with Eckermann . But , even there , the talk is less well recorded than in Boswell's Johnson ; and less ...
... talk of great men is seldom preserved . We have , it is true , such books as Coleridge's Table - talk , or Goethe's conversations with Eckermann . But , even there , the talk is less well recorded than in Boswell's Johnson ; and less ...
Pagina 32
... talk out of Boswell's Life , and it would collapse like an animal deprived of its 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 ...
... talk out of Boswell's Life , and it would collapse like an animal deprived of its 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 ...
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