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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... told far more than one really needs , one remembers far less . The impression is blurred by multitudinousness ; just as one could not , says Aristotle ( with a flash of imagination rare in his austere pages ) grasp as a unity a creature ...
... told far more than one really needs , one remembers far less . The impression is blurred by multitudinousness ; just as one could not , says Aristotle ( with a flash of imagination rare in his austere pages ) grasp as a unity a creature ...
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... told me for near 42 long years in the same Study ' [ computation of the exact season of the creation of the world ] . ' My eldest Daughter , then precisely ten Years old , said they looked like Baucis & Philemon , and so they did ...
... told me for near 42 long years in the same Study ' [ computation of the exact season of the creation of the world ] . ' My eldest Daughter , then precisely ten Years old , said they looked like Baucis & Philemon , and so they did ...
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... told Boswell that he had better be palsied at eighteen than miss the company of a man like Johnson . I should be extremely loth to be palsied at any age , for the company of anybody . Still , bating that picturesque exaggeration , I ...
... told Boswell that he had better be palsied at eighteen than miss the company of a man like Johnson . I should be extremely loth to be palsied at any age , for the company of anybody . Still , bating that picturesque exaggeration , I ...
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... told ( though this may be only gossip ) , some Russian emissary was entertained at Johnson's old college in Oxford . For his diversion they produced a sacred relic - ' This is Dr Johnson's teapot . ' They were a trifle surprised to see ...
... told ( though this may be only gossip ) , some Russian emissary was entertained at Johnson's old college in Oxford . For his diversion they produced a sacred relic - ' This is Dr Johnson's teapot . ' They were a trifle surprised to see ...
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... told Hawkins -- what it was to be totally free from pain ; and in old age he wrote to Hector that , since twenty , his health had seldom given him a single day of ease . Few men can have triumphed against heavier handi- caps . Even the ...
... told Hawkins -- what it was to be totally free from pain ; and in old age he wrote to Hector that , since twenty , his health had seldom given him a single day of ease . Few men can have triumphed against heavier handi- caps . Even the ...
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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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