The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 104
... genius , and that the great rule by which all excellence is attained , and all success procured , is to follow genius , and have you not observed in all our conversations that my genius is always in extremes , that I am very noisy , or ...
... genius , and that the great rule by which all excellence is attained , and all success procured , is to follow genius , and have you not observed in all our conversations that my genius is always in extremes , that I am very noisy , or ...
Pagina 191
... genius : in that does my opulence consist , and not in base metal . ' That such absurdities could make Boswell think himself a genius is fantastic enough ; but what remains far more fantastic is , that for quite different reasons he had ...
... genius : in that does my opulence consist , and not in base metal . ' That such absurdities could make Boswell think himself a genius is fantastic enough ; but what remains far more fantastic is , that for quite different reasons he had ...
Pagina 274
... genius ' . For ' genius ' becomes often rather a tiresome pomp - word , a cant - term of literary mystics , which it might per- haps be better never to use at all . The ancient Romans believed that every man possessed his ' genius ...
... genius ' . For ' genius ' becomes often rather a tiresome pomp - word , a cant - term of literary mystics , which it might per- haps be better never to use at all . The ancient Romans believed that every man possessed his ' genius ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE I | 1 |
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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