The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... smile at poor Cole , he was being prophetic . Fully to appreciate Gibbs and the eighteenth century , it is worth lingering a moment longer on King's Bridge , to glance at what later ages have achieved . For the work of the two and a ...
... smile at poor Cole , he was being prophetic . Fully to appreciate Gibbs and the eighteenth century , it is worth lingering a moment longer on King's Bridge , to glance at what later ages have achieved . For the work of the two and a ...
Pagina 157
... smile ' . And this principle , though to me ridiculous , is ancient - cf . Ecclesi- asticus , xxi , 20 ; ' A fool lifteth up his voice with laughter , but a wise man doth scarce smile a little . ' There is a tediously priggish passage ...
... smile ' . And this principle , though to me ridiculous , is ancient - cf . Ecclesi- asticus , xxi , 20 ; ' A fool lifteth up his voice with laughter , but a wise man doth scarce smile a little . ' There is a tediously priggish passage ...
Pagina 158
... smile at your enemies , when you cannot strike . ' Were I in Africa , I would pay flattery to a negro for his good - will . ' And so Philip Stanhope is given special hints how , at Turin , to flatter the House of Savoy . He is to admire ...
... smile at your enemies , when you cannot strike . ' Were I in Africa , I would pay flattery to a negro for his good - will . ' And so Philip Stanhope is given special hints how , at Turin , to flatter the House of Savoy . He is to admire ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE I | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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