The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 123
... suppose , there is a strained artificiality in language like But now my oat proceeds And listens to the herald of the sea . All the same .... And then to call the versification of Lycidas ' un- pleasing ' , the songs of Comus ...
... suppose , there is a strained artificiality in language like But now my oat proceeds And listens to the herald of the sea . All the same .... And then to call the versification of Lycidas ' un- pleasing ' , the songs of Comus ...
Pagina 158
... suppose , ' he argues , ' that the animals or vegetables were better then than now . ' So why human beings ? In fact , for Chesterfield , the human race has always consisted mainly of geese and peacocks . The logical conclusions follow ...
... suppose , ' he argues , ' that the animals or vegetables were better then than now . ' So why human beings ? In fact , for Chesterfield , the human race has always consisted mainly of geese and peacocks . The logical conclusions follow ...
Pagina 163
... suppose , partly due to the generalizing tendencies of his time , whose 1 Porson is said to have likewise maintained that anyone , by taking as much trouble , could become as good a critic as he was . Johnson at Dunvegan was inclined to ...
... suppose , partly due to the generalizing tendencies of his time , whose 1 Porson is said to have likewise maintained that anyone , by taking as much trouble , could become as good a critic as he was . Johnson at Dunvegan was inclined to ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE I | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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