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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... WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN THE BEAR DANCES FOUR PLAYS POEMS 1935 ARIADNE GILGAMESH HERO AND LEANDER APHRODITE A GREEK GARLAND GREEK POETRY FOR EVERYMAN GREEK DRAMA FOR EVERYMAN FROM MANY TIMES AND LANDS F. L. LUCAS Fellow of King's ...
... WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN THE BEAR DANCES FOUR PLAYS POEMS 1935 ARIADNE GILGAMESH HERO AND LEANDER APHRODITE A GREEK GARLAND GREEK POETRY FOR EVERYMAN GREEK DRAMA FOR EVERYMAN FROM MANY TIMES AND LANDS F. L. LUCAS Fellow of King's ...
Pagina 36
... woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog ' , showed on their ride to Derby for the wedding a domineering capriciousness about their speed which the bridegroom , Petruchio - like , was driven to cure promptly and 1 In the marriage ...
... woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog ' , showed on their ride to Derby for the wedding a domineering capriciousness about their speed which the bridegroom , Petruchio - like , was driven to cure promptly and 1 In the marriage ...
Pagina 50
... him , it would be hard to match this jewel of unconscious humour . * I do not know why this hardly used and unhappy woman has been called ' dull ' . 8 The Ghost ( 1762 ) . With which , assisted with a frown By way of. 50 JOHNSON.
... him , it would be hard to match this jewel of unconscious humour . * I do not know why this hardly used and unhappy woman has been called ' dull ' . 8 The Ghost ( 1762 ) . With which , assisted with a frown By way of. 50 JOHNSON.
Pagina 56
... woman of the town , and ran through all his wealth before he died in 1838 . Johnson had not misjudged . Recorded by Cumberland , who cannot vouch for it . But it would have taken a clever mind to invent . There was Barnard , Dean of ...
... woman of the town , and ran through all his wealth before he died in 1838 . Johnson had not misjudged . Recorded by Cumberland , who cannot vouch for it . But it would have taken a clever mind to invent . There was Barnard , Dean of ...
Pagina 61
... woman . But however his views might vary about details , they remained gloomily constant in the conviction that happiness was an exceptional , fleeting , momentary thing . ' No man is happy but as he is compared with the miserable ...
... woman . But however his views might vary about details , they remained gloomily constant in the conviction that happiness was an exceptional , fleeting , momentary thing . ' No man is happy but as he is compared with the miserable ...
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