The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 103
... laugh ' like a rhinoceros ' , was the exact opposite of Chesterfield , who never laughed at all . One can understand why Johnson spoke , in praising Falstaff , of ' the most pleasing of all qualities , perpetual gaiety ' . Johnson could ...
... laugh ' like a rhinoceros ' , was the exact opposite of Chesterfield , who never laughed at all . One can understand why Johnson spoke , in praising Falstaff , of ' the most pleasing of all qualities , perpetual gaiety ' . Johnson could ...
Pagina 156
... laugh . ( A gentleman never laughs ; the noise is ' disagreeable ' , and the distortion ' shocking ' . Chesterfield himself has never laughed since he had full use of his reason.3 ) 1 ' To be astonished or staggered by nothing ' ; not ...
... laugh . ( A gentleman never laughs ; the noise is ' disagreeable ' , and the distortion ' shocking ' . Chesterfield himself has never laughed since he had full use of his reason.3 ) 1 ' To be astonished or staggered by nothing ' ; not ...
Pagina 157
... laugh , whatever jest prevails . Nothing but nonsense e'er gave laughter birth , The vulgar way the vulgar show ... laugh before the fall ' . Such prim objections to laughter seem to have been sometimes because it was unæsthetic ...
... laugh , whatever jest prevails . Nothing but nonsense e'er gave laughter birth , The vulgar way the vulgar show ... laugh before the fall ' . Such prim objections to laughter seem to have been sometimes because it was unæsthetic ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE I | 1 |
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Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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