The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithCassell, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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Pagina 31
... talk of great men is seldom preserved . We have , it is true , such books as Coleridge's Table - talk , or Goethe's conversations with Eckermann . But , even there , the talk is less well recorded than in Boswell's Johnson ; and less ...
... talk of great men is seldom preserved . We have , it is true , such books as Coleridge's Table - talk , or Goethe's conversations with Eckermann . But , even there , the talk is less well recorded than in Boswell's Johnson ; and less ...
Pagina 32
... talk out of Boswell's Life , and it would collapse like an animal deprived of its heart ; take the talk out of Boswell's Hebrides , and it would be little superior to Johnson's own account of the same tour . Johnson is , above all , a ...
... talk out of Boswell's Life , and it would collapse like an animal deprived of its heart ; take the talk out of Boswell's Hebrides , and it would be little superior to Johnson's own account of the same tour . Johnson is , above all , a ...
Pagina 272
... talk - more spontaneous than his books or letters -- but usually far less authentically recorded . None the less , where the reporting is good and the circumstances known , I do not know what reveals a man's character more vividly than ...
... talk - more spontaneous than his books or letters -- but usually far less authentically recorded . None the less , where the reporting is good and the circumstances known , I do not know what reveals a man's character more vividly than ...
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The EighteenthCentury Mind PAGE I | 1 |
Johnson | 25 |
Lord Chesterfield | 129 |
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