The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... remarkable in their enthusiasm against ' enthusiasm ' - or what we should call ' fanati- cism ' . In human history it is lamentably rare . For one of the first things Man did when he acquired an intelli- gence was , it seems , to invent ...
... remarkable in their enthusiasm against ' enthusiasm ' - or what we should call ' fanati- cism ' . In human history it is lamentably rare . For one of the first things Man did when he acquired an intelli- gence was , it seems , to invent ...
Pagina 29
... remarkable ; it is hardly less remarkable that we seem to know him so intimately . Horace Walpole , I think , wrote far better letters even than John- son's ; yet with Walpole we cannot feel quite the same intimacy . For even in letters ...
... remarkable ; it is hardly less remarkable that we seem to know him so intimately . Horace Walpole , I think , wrote far better letters even than John- son's ; yet with Walpole we cannot feel quite the same intimacy . For even in letters ...
Pagina 274
... remarkable as the Tour and the Life imply remarkable merits in their author . But at this point , I think , one should grow very careful . It is easy and tempting for the critic to be drawn on into raptures and rhapsodies . But anyone ...
... remarkable as the Tour and the Life imply remarkable merits in their author . But at this point , I think , one should grow very careful . It is easy and tempting for the critic to be drawn on into raptures and rhapsodies . But anyone ...
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